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By Rosie Mullany
Special to the Rappahannock News
Michael Moore’s latest documentary, a rambling inquiry into the sources of violence and fear in American culture, is tendentious and infuriating, full of ideological cheap shots and bullying interviews. It is also generous, disturbing, honest and funny.
“Bowling for Columbine” will be shown by the Rappahannock Association for Arts in the Community (RAAC) Friday, June 6 at 8 p.m. at The Theatre on Gay Street in Little Washington.
Moore, in the good-natured, confrontational style familiar from “Roger and Me” and “TV Nation,” his sadly short-lived series on Fox, tracks his subject far and wide, a little too far and a little too wide perhaps.
His starting point is the horrific massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Like everyone else, he wonders how such a thing could have happened, and what it says about contemporary American society.
These questions quickly lead to larger ones: Why do Americans shoot one another so much more often than the citizens of other developed countries?
Why do our lives seem to be governed by fear? The string of
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