Under the Gun

2016. • 105 minuta

O ovom filmu

In Under the Gun, Katie Couric and Stephanie Soechtig—the team responsible for Fed Up, which looked at the food industry and the alarming spread of childhood obesity—examine why, despite the increase in deaths at the hands of guns and the outpouring of shock and outrage that comes with it, our nation has failed to respond with meaningful action. What is keeping the two sides of this debate—those favoring stricter gun control laws and Second Amendment purists like the NRA—from finding common ground? Through the lens of families impacted by the mass shootings in Newtown, Aurora, Isla Vista and Tucson, as well as daily gun violence in Chicago, the film examines why our national politicians are refusing to act and what is being done at the state and local levels.

Ocjene i recenzije

So its always funny how they try to make their opinions and personal feelings facts. If you look at the real statistics, which they(anti-gun sensationalists) will never talk about, there is no debate. They like to talk about the children killed(which I'm not saying it's not terrible) but more children drown in swimming pools each year than children killed by mass shootings, accidental shootings, and stray bullets combined. Better ban pools..Oh yeah but a pool can't save a life. Why don't theybring up that#

As evidenced by their twitter and facebook posts (under the film name), the director, Katie Couric, and producers are not the unbiased observers they state they are. The film is a rehash of all the regular arguments and nothing more. The intellectual dishonesty of selective edits as pointed out on NPR, NYT, and the WashingtonPost, call into question what other "pauses" there are, whether actual noteworthy and honestly good counter arguments were cut, deleted, or omitted by their obvious bias. There is no need to see this movie, it's like watching 3rd graders explain calculus, they know it involves numbers, letters, and squiggly icons, but have nothing to help people know why it exists and what it means. As with almost every anti-gun film created by non-gun familiar people, they cannot define or understand the difference in terminology, everything is a Glock or an M16, and everything is a clip and bullets. As a journalist, interviewing 2 sides doesn't mean you actually got a fair look finding the "truth" it just means you picked the two extremes and found out nothing in the middle.

It's sad when people set out to prove a point and feel compelled to prove it at any cost, even sacrificing their integrity in the process. Katie Couric set out to prove her conclusions about guns and gun owners and ultimately used deceptive editing so that in the end she hurt her cause rather than helped it. Save your money and look for a documentary with more honesty.