The Socratic Method: "Bowling for Columbine"

After watching "Bowling for Columbine," I noticed strong connections between the documentary and Socrates' Socratic method. In "Bowling for Columbine," Michael Moore adopts the Socratic method in analyzing the gun problem in America, especially in interviewing different people who could be held responsible (Charleton Heston, workers at Kmart Corp., etc.). Whereas most people keep the interviews they conduct on a respectful and nonconfrontational level, Moore asked questions-that others would never dream of asking-simply because he wanted to hold others accountable for their actions, and he wanted to know the truth. After asking one confrontational question, and then hearing the answer, Michael Moore asked follow-up questions that challenged them further. Sometimes he even asked the questions in a completely different way so as to trap them into feeling guilty for the wrongful "crimes" they had committed and for all of the ways they contributed to the gun problem in America. At times, questions were not needed at all; Moore's actions did all the talking. For example, Moore brought two victims from the Columbine shooting to Kmart headquarters and confronted the "big guys" directly, making sure that they knew that Kmart bullets did the damage. The next day, to prove an even bigger point, he and the boys went to Kmart and bought all of the bullets. Then they returned to Kmart headquarters and demanded answers. To sum it all up: Michael Moore not only asked questions, but he asked them in different ways than the norm allowed for, and he built off of these questions in order to challenge the people he was interviewing to see the situation in unaccustomed ways-to see that they were the ones who were truly at fault. He "proved" one point after another by doing things this way. On page 221 of "The Dialogues of Plato," for example, Socrates persuades Glaucon and the others to sway to his line of thinking by "proving" various statements to them and getting them to agree/comply. Socrates plays the "so then, (blank) must be true because (blank) you agreed is also true" kind of card. This can also be related to Michael Moore's way of interrogating others and finding out information.
Michael Moore and Socrates both utilize the Socratic method so that they are able to get to the truth and so that they are able to make others see the truth in themselves.