The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.
Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Director Trademark:
[Michael Moore]
[Flint]
The elementary school that Moore visits is in Flint, Michigan
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Goofs
Factual errors:
The film claims that that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attended a bowling class on the morning of the massacre. This is incorrect as testified in a judicial review.
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Quotes
Michael Moore:
Our children get turned into little monsters, but who's to blame? See more »
Crazy Credits
There is no cast list, either at the start of the film or at the end.
People are credited either by subtitle, by the narrator or by themselves.
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"What a Wonderful World"
(1967) Written by Bob Thiele (as Robert Thiele) and George David Weiss (as George Weiss) Performed by Louis Armstrong Courtesy of MCA Records Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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