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To: Condor who wrote (58397)	11/22/2002 8:08:37 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

Canadians financed the project. Here's part of a review: Staring Down the Barrel of A Gun With Canadian money and Yank moxie, Michael Moore takes aim at the fear and loathing behind America's fetish for firearms Brian D. Johnson When Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore's documentary look at gun-crazy America, premiered in Cannes last May, the guerrilla filmmaker found himself in a bizarre, bilateral line of fire. On the one hand, some U.S. critics were dismissing his film as an anti-American rant; on the other, there were Canadians who complained that, to draw a contrast to America's gun culture, Moore had painted a risible caricature of Canada as a haven from violence and poverty. But Bowling for Columbine is the most important movie to come out of the United States since the events of Sept. 11. This anatomy of trigger-happy America is by turns funny, harrowing, sad and surreal. I love it. Still, I was one of those critics who quibbled about how the film portrays Canadians as mild-mannered naifs who don't lock their doors. In Cannes, I accused him of fudging facts. The film points out that, although Canada has a much lower murder rate than the U.S., we have an arsenal of 7 million guns in 10 million households. Moore uses this to bolster his argument that the reason Americans shoot each other in such great numbers isn't a lack of gun control, but a "culture of fear." Yet the film fails to mention that Canadians tend to own hunting rifles -- not assault weapons, and not loaded handguns in purses, glove compartments and bedside tables. "What you're doing," I told Moore, "is using Canada as your straight man." MOre, here: bowlingforcolumbine.com