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killings around Washington last year provide a grim reminder that these issues are always timely.
These are hardly simple questions and Moore vacillates between acknowledging their complexity and giving in to his own urge to simplify.
Is violent popular culture to blame? No, because in a country like Japan, with a tiny fraction of our gun deaths, people consume super-brutal movies, video games and comic books with even more voracity than we do.
Is it our history of warfare and brutality? Compared with imperial Britain and Nazi Germany, he suggests, we’re downright pacific.
Though it may not always convince, this movie asks important questions, provokes thought and has been debated with ferocity everywhere it has been screened.
“Bowling for Columbine” has racked up many honors: Best documentary of all time from the International Documentary Association; Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 2002; and Best Foreign Film of 2002 by the French Academy of Cinema, to name a few.
“Chicago”, originally announced for June 6, will be shown on July 4.
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