The Cold Dead Heart Of Gun Toting America: Michael Moore's 'Bowling For Columbine'

'The first documentary in forty-six years to be selected for competition at Cannes, "Bowling for Columbine" is a dizzying, surreal, disturbing hurtle through the flipside of the American Dream. Building from its base in the stricken high school community, it spirals out into the wider world and back through America's bloody history, spinning an intricate web of connections between the macro and the micro, individual and government, handgun and missile, small town and superpower. Starting at street level we focus on the community's relationship with weapons, draw back for a look at the way violence fits into the national psyche, and zoom out for a disturbing look at how these forces, writ large, shape America's destiny.'