Friday, December 5, 2014

Michael Moore in his documentary “Bowling for Columbine” used the Socratic Method to get the most information out of interviews and sources for the purpose of the documentary. Since Moore is researching/uncovering a huge topic that is multi-sided and very complex, his questions have to be the same way. He has to prepare questions before the interview and thoughtfully consider each question to get the most information out of his sources. This includes coming up with follow up questions during an interview that he can't plan for. All of this he did in the movie, when he was interviewing the head guy of the NRA, he had some pretty tough questions that left him speechless for a few moments. He asked questions like “why is this the problem” and “What is different about America.” It was questions like these that gave Moore the answers that he was looking for. In the book Dialogues of Plato Socrates does this same line of questioning/ reasoning when he is on trial for his life. He asks thought out thought provoking questions aimed right towards your brain. And it’s these good questions that we have to think about before answering that are the best ones.

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