Documentary: Critical Review of "Michael Moore - Bowling for Columbine"

I was initially shown this documentary as an example of "good practice" in making a documentary but I personally did not like certain aspects of it. The coverage of the story and interviews were all very compelling and interesting as well as thought provocing, especially the interview with one of the creators of South Park, which made it seem more real to me as I connected with him as I like his work. The way the story was told was very effective and I came away both interested and well informed but the part that ruined the documentary for me was when he started looking for people to blame. Michael Moore decided to quiz people about why they own and gun in america and why Wall Mart thinks it is okay to sell weapons. This is something I agree with him about but the way that people in the film were having to take the blame, such as the person that simply worked at Wall Mart was very harsh and not very sympathetic of the film maker, it felt biased. When he went into a Politicians house and quizzed him about why he thinks guns should be legalised I did honestly disagree with what the Politician was saying but the whole time I felt like Michael Moore was trying to lay blame on the man and this was unjust. Saying that I did like the part with Marilyn Manson as Michael Moore highlighted the fact that legalised weapons are much more likely the cause of children doing such things than listening to a song and using this celebrity was a very good choice as he is very striking to look at but spoke a lot of sense in the interview, it was almost off putting how strange he looked but how much sense he spoke. Overall I thought the documentary highlighted some important issues and on the whole I agreed with everything that was said but I found it hard to really engage because I could not help but feel that Micheal Moore was trying to sway my opinion, even thought it did not need to be swayed.