Evaluation

Criteria
Background
Objectiveness
Without badgering and without pushing people, a little sarcasm
sentimental influence
good links among events
strong evidence
opposite views

REVIEW

A good documentary should give all background occurrences about the issue and prepare and warm up the audience for main topic. In that point, Bowling for Columbine has jumped to matters that seemed to be unrelated. According to film maker's style, all incidents might be chained each other, but documentary has appeared a little disorderly for a good documentary.

Secondly, Objectiveness is considerably precise for audience. If film director tries to manupulate the audience, people immediately comprehends this manipulation.

A talented documentary director should keep away from much comment, instead he should have experts talk in the documentary. Bowling for Columbine suffers from a lack of some expertise, instead, it has given a forum for many negative opinions.

On the other hand, some documentaries push people to reveal their opinion as the film makers guide. Some badger the people who do not serve the documentary's purpose. We can not exactly say that Columbine harrassed people, but like Charlton Heston's interview, it sometimes showed a little bit aggression. A good documentary has to influence and hit the audience so they will be able to talk about the documentary along days and weeks. Bowling for Columbine had very sentimental impact that's why it succeed and obtained a lot of awards. I believe that since the documentary is successful, it should link events. Sometimes, BFC has weaken the chain of incidents. Micheal Moore might have tried to send a political message and exhibited the conflict between a singer(Marlyn Manson) and a politician (Bill Clinton). But, I cannot see a relationship between Kosova Bombing and Columbine Massacre except timing. It must be an irony which is coincidental.

Besides, A good documentary should claim strong evidence based academic and scientific studies. BFC has sometimes exaggerated the relationship among matters. For exampe, It claims that white people have got armed and escaped to suburbia since they were scared from black people. But, Second Amendment has given a right white people to carry a gun for 300 years, needless to say, three century ago, white people were not able to be scared from black people.