Monday, December 31, 2007
Haha, sorry about my birthday blog post >.> but it was really that boring. I slept most of it so i got nothing to blog about.
Anywho, this post is about the documentary i just watched on arts central entitled "Bowling for Columbine". The title has a little pun which i'll explain now haha. If you do not know, the columbine massacre is an affair ( in the United States ) which is about a shooting outbreak in Columbine Highschool. 2 male students stormed into the library and randomly shot students. If memory serves me right, a total of 13 ( or so ) students were shot to death and a teacher was killed. Many others, were injured. The 2 gunmen then committed suicide. A total of around 900 rounds of bullets were shot in the incident.
The pun is that, these 2 gunmen were bowling right before the shooting. And due to the fact that even after investigation, no "reason" for the murders could be found, it was, ironically attributed, in the film, to the bowling.
Okay, key points that struck me in the film.
1) In light of students taking up the gun and pointing it at fellow students, the issue was largely blamed on controversial music artistes, namely Marilyn Manson because of the rather, saddistic content which he sang through his music. I disgress. In fact, in the statement given by Marilyn Manson in his interview with the filmmaker ( dunno the name ) of "Bowling for Columbine", He has actually earned my respect as a fellow human being who has proven to have a higher intellect than your average american. In his statement, he doesn't take to heart that much of the population had attributed the shootings to him but rather, he feels empathy of their blindness to the actual situation. It has struck me, especially to note, that the putting of blame on Manson was probably a diversion used by the media and government as facts show that, there was more bombing / destruction done by the US government after the Columbine massacre. The most touching line Manson said was when he was asked what he would have done, if he was put in front of the students of columbine right now and asked to say something.
To this, he replied. "I would not say anything to them. I would listen to them, because that is what no one has ever done yet."
2) - to be compounded on further next time -
Anywho, this post is about the documentary i just watched on arts central entitled "Bowling for Columbine". The title has a little pun which i'll explain now haha. If you do not know, the columbine massacre is an affair ( in the United States ) which is about a shooting outbreak in Columbine Highschool. 2 male students stormed into the library and randomly shot students. If memory serves me right, a total of 13 ( or so ) students were shot to death and a teacher was killed. Many others, were injured. The 2 gunmen then committed suicide. A total of around 900 rounds of bullets were shot in the incident.
The pun is that, these 2 gunmen were bowling right before the shooting. And due to the fact that even after investigation, no "reason" for the murders could be found, it was, ironically attributed, in the film, to the bowling.
Okay, key points that struck me in the film.
1) In light of students taking up the gun and pointing it at fellow students, the issue was largely blamed on controversial music artistes, namely Marilyn Manson because of the rather, saddistic content which he sang through his music. I disgress. In fact, in the statement given by Marilyn Manson in his interview with the filmmaker ( dunno the name ) of "Bowling for Columbine", He has actually earned my respect as a fellow human being who has proven to have a higher intellect than your average american. In his statement, he doesn't take to heart that much of the population had attributed the shootings to him but rather, he feels empathy of their blindness to the actual situation. It has struck me, especially to note, that the putting of blame on Manson was probably a diversion used by the media and government as facts show that, there was more bombing / destruction done by the US government after the Columbine massacre. The most touching line Manson said was when he was asked what he would have done, if he was put in front of the students of columbine right now and asked to say something.
To this, he replied. "I would not say anything to them. I would listen to them, because that is what no one has ever done yet."
2) - to be compounded on further next time -
what we could have been, 12:09 AM.
