Documentary Style: 4 Little Girls vs. Bowling for Columbine
Two documentaries that use two different styles of portraying bombings are 4 Little Girls and Bowling for Columbine.4 Little Girls by Spike Lee is a documentary on the 1963 Birmingham bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. This bombing is infamous for the killing of 4 innocent little black girls. Spike Lee uses his style to portray the feelings of the families of these girls as well as influential leaders during this time. Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore is also a documentary about the killing of innocent people, but Moore uses a different style. Moore describes reasons for violence in America rather than getting personal with people in which the bombing affected. These two different styles are both documentaries, yet they are just presented to an audience in two different ways. A documentary is a source of information for citizens about certain events that are portrayed through film. These views of the......
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