Michael & Me
by Larry Elder
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Director: Larry ElderDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Non-Fiction Films
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Movie Review: A thoughtful, comprehensive overview to the 2nd Amendment debate.
Summary: 5 Stars
Larry Elder gathers input from an impressive collection of historians, lawyers, criminologists, and scholars on the role of guns in America, including comparisons of other nations' relationships with guns and gun control. In addition to the erudite speakers interviewed by Elder, there were numerous man-on-the-street interviews which reflected the knowledge, ignorance, and opinions of Americans about gun rights. Also fascinating were the insights of reformed gang leaders and their anecdotal experiences and views on guns and crime.
The American public ranges from ignorant to sharply astute in their understanding of our Constitution, our nation's gun laws, and gun statistics. Elder dispels misunderstandings, clarifies realities, and reveals the plain-spoken truth of guns. The result shows guns to be tools (dangerous in the hands of criminals and life-saving in the hands of those who would deter them); shows that these tools are used far more to protect than to harm; explains that even if you could undo the 2nd Amendment and remove guns from the law-abiding, you'd still have a thriving black-market abundantly providing them to the lawless; and unambiguously explains that, love them or hate them, it is our Constitutional right to own guns.
I confess a bias in reviewing this documentary: I came into the 1990's a gun-hater, but found my opinions irrevocably altered over the course of that decade by exactly the kind of hard facts compiled and introduced here by Larry Elder. So be warned, those of you who think you are faithfully married to the ideals of gun control: this movie can alter your thinking, it can lead to the kind of knowledge and understanding that, once achieved, can never be undone.
My one beef with this documentary is the title, which I thought was slightly misleading. I had hoped for a greater confrontation between Elder & Michael Moore, though in all fairness, it's been so long since I saw "Roger & Me" that I don't remember whether Moore succeeded in any better of a showdown between himself and Roger Smith in that movie. Fortunately for America, Larry Elder never had to ambush Alzheimer's patients to score pathetic points against his opposition, as Michael Moore did in "Bowling for Columbine". I guess you really don't need to rely on propaganda and ambushing the disabled when you have facts & history on your side.
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