Bowling For Columbine Question (NOT A DEBATE!)

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-09-07 02:22pm

I placed this in OT instead of N&P because, well...you'll see when I get to the question.

What's up with the title? "Bowling For..."? Why are they "Bowling For" Columbine? What does that have to do with the documentary, or any of the events potrayed in it?

Keep in mind these two things:

1) I have not yet seen the movie.

2) I am not making this to debate the documentary itself or, for that matter, Michael Moore, just as a question. The name has been confusing me for some time now.

I'd ask that if it turns into a debate, that the kind Mods just split the debate parts. I'd really like to know the answer to the question, and don't want to have to wade through yet another debate to try and do so.

Thanks.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-09-07 02:27pm

Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris supposedly attended a bowling class the morning of the Columbine massacre, hence the name. Of course, they really didn't attend the class that morning.

TheDarkOne · Post by **TheDarkOne** » 2003-09-07 02:29pm

The kids went Bowling the morning of the incident. One of the things moore says in the movie is: isn't just as likely that bowling, and not any of the other suggested causes, made the kids to do what they did.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-09-07 02:30pm

The movie is about the gun culture in the US, and how it relates to the amount of gun violence. It is a reference to what the Columbine HS killers did the day before they went in and shot 20 people. They went bowling. There are some redeeming features to this movie dispite what most people on this board would tell you. Moore does interview people who knew the pair at Columbine, he interviewed one of the creators of South Park which is loosely based on the town, because it's his hometown, he interviews the brother of one of the Oklahoma City Bombers who let them work in his barn, and that is just an eyeopening interview.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-09-07 04:44pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote: he interviews the brother of one of the Oklahoma City Bombers who let them work in his barn, and that is just an eyeopening interview.

Especially when you consider that he was arrested about six or so months after the interview, on charges of building explosive devices and plotting terrorist acts.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2003-09-07 05:18pm

And they just let him go with no surveilance?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-09-07 05:25pm

StormTrooperTR889 wrote:And they just let him go with no surveilance?

No, he was arrested, tried, and convicted. As far as I know, he's still serving a sentence. It was for double digit years minimum, I recall. I'll try and track down an actual news blurb.