Gun-Culture Satire?  You do injustice to the art of satire, sir.

The Toronto Film Critics Association has named Michael Moore’s “gun-culture satire” Bowling For Columbine as best documentary.

Two things: One, what a shocker, Canada applauding a trite, falsified polemic as long as it indicts gun culture that *isn’t* centered around a deer rifle, and two, is Moore the only one left in the entire world who is maintining that BFC is NOT about guns “per se?”

Well, Moore and his minions, that is.  Yeah, BFC *isn’t* about guns the way “Choke” isn’t about Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.

I know that reference will go over the heads of many, but if you are interested at all in Mixed Martial Arts or the Vale Tudo, rent a film called “Choke.” It profiles the 1995 Vale Tudo tournament, and proclaimed to be a documentary, but was really a commercial for Rickson Gracie and the Gracie style of fighting.  They broke down and slapped Rickson’s mug all over the cover, though, so now you know going in.  :)

Hey, Rickson was, and likely still is, a bad-ass, and deserved to win the Vale Tudo in ‘95, but “Choke” is NOT any more a documentary than BFC.  It’s a good film, though.