Ian - Rhythm Smurph wrote:Interesting I'll have a dig!
1)I didn't read that scene as the point being that they give a gun to anyone.
The point I took from that 'free gun' promotion was that MM was trying to suggest how ingrained the notion of gun ownership is and how 'normal' a commodity it was. Whether or not there was a background check policy was irrelevant, in fact I'd assumed that there was.
So maybe I am already filtering through the propaganda to a certain extent when watching his films.
If that scene was staged it is very disappointing, and it does annoy me!
2)To me MM is a patriotic American who is on a quest to understand why his country is going down the s**t - some of the biggest questions he was asking in BFC was why for instance if Canada has a higher per-capita gun ownership than the US, was their significantly less gun crime - he was I think trying to uncover the attitude or collective mental state of the nation which makes it so violent and understand how to fix it.
3)I feel the same way about the extremely childish attitude to alcohol in the UK. Drinking to excess being pretty much the excepted norm. The resultant street violence, injury, vandalism etc etc etc and the full A&E departments on Friday and Saturday nights seemingly being separated out in peoples minds from the drinking.
We think we can handle out booze in this country because we drink a lot - in fact if you act like a twit from pint 3 on wards you aren't handling you booze.
I think our attitude to alcohol is very similar to the American view of firearms. We think its our unalienable right to get wankered/carry a gun. Street fighting/kids shooting their class mates is just unfortunate and we refuse to see any cause and effect.
It about time we all grew up!
1)if I remember correctly he say something as "well, so if I sign here you will just give me the gun, right?" in which the woman responds "well yes of course", he admitted himself it was staged, now what REALLY annoyed me, is that the promotion existed in the bank he mentioned, but "to make his point" he had to corrupt his own argument by stagint he thing....I thought it was stupid because that's the way to break down your own argument
2)I agree about that, but I really hate him because he seems to cause more harm than good, of course when people watch his stuff that are already converted to his cause, they applaud because he says what they think, but when someone that doesn't agree ith him sees the movie, he'll be disgusted....
about the Canada thing, I heard by canadian people over the internet on another board (I think it was on
www.wtaworld.com, I'll try to find the thread back) that a lot of what was said on it was false too, so again he did it there....
3)I fully agree with that,even though I like drinking
shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather....
