Summary Of Vice Guide To Liberia

Vice Guide to Liberia
Vice guide to Liberia’s Shane Smith utilizes satire to set a gruesome mood using raw footage of ex cannibal warlords and a down trodden Liberia. Shane Smith shows the destructive culture by using allegory and descriptive voices to keep you engaged to hear the cries of people. Using juxtaposition shows the true comparison of an individual’s view of the same warn torn country of Liberia.
The juxtaposition between Glenna’s motionless pictures and Vice Guides video left an on the fence feeling, about Liberia and how it was really being depicted. There is a good and bad side to every city or country. Myles has come to the rescue to convey life and hope to what seemed like a dark hell. It’s the way in which a circumstance are being portrayed as to what emotions surface. Feelings of
hopelessness despair and desperation overwhelms the mind and heart while seeing and listening to their stories.
Knowing that people are reduced to selling their bodies gives a feeling of being violated. Do people really have to live in filth? In this video Liberians not only fight to survive they survive to fight. Keeping the mood somber and dark keeps you looking for the light and wanting to see the good side of Liberia. As Myles Estey is seen in the Vice Guide to Liberia video, he is not really heard. Myles blog speaks on the liveliness and the occupational success of young Liberian compared in Vice Guide, possibly the same young people that were labeled gun toting child soldiers. Estey’s forest blog states that an offer to not ratify several forestry contracts, worth millions was not completely assessed to understand the full purpose. 85% of the country is unemployed 15% are employed. Would accepting this offer have provided jobs as well as educational opportunities on trading services? This could have been a golden opportunity to teach a war torn country on how to rebuild, provide jobs and keep revenue in Liberia to
ensure its positive growth. When people are broke and destitute politics is not something that is heard, understood or really cared about clearly. What kind of answer would have been given if someone would have said “because of global crisis were are limiting jobs. It is all about living and feeding families. Young Liberians show that change is possible by taking the initiative to do what it takes to find and create jobs.
From General Butt Naked to the young drug addicted boy. These stories were interesting as well as mind blowing. When you allow an individual to voice their story it opens a window into their soul. The desperation in their voice is a true testimony of someone wanting a change. Butt Naked, Rambo and the others bring some credibility to this video. They are eating, living and breathing this what would they have to lie about. The original idea was to talk with ex war Lords that ruled over armies by taking radical measures and possibly brain washing young men with the ideas of cannibalism and fighting, all to show power. General Butt Naked talked about his powerful reign. How others were afraid of him. Killing and eating people including small innocent children. Yes, it does sound sick and twisted, but that’s what it took for him to gain the courage to rise to that level of power he obtained in order to be brought back down to serve the people of Liberia. The people he now helped are possibly family’s members of the ones he killed.

The drug influence youth was at a stage where he did not know up from down. He has an effective and strong story to tell, but unfortunately he was under the seduction of drugs and wasn’t able to tell what his goal is in life. What the hopes and dreams of his parents were for him. He did state that there were no schools and that there was no help, no help. This sounded convincing and real. As they show him later he is succumbed to his drug high and is just being mocked. Various sex workers were interviewed to not only tell their story, but maybe in hopes of exposing government officials.
When this video was first viewed feelings of hurt and hopelessness surfaced. Captivating of seeing the footage of a place that seems so far away. Is it possible for someone to change? Showing the Red light district Shane was able to grab ahold and take you into a world of hopelessness, but on the other had exploited lots of people who in turn saw him as a savior who was going to bring relief. Seeing someone else’s devastation and pain bring delight to some. If Shane had shown the wonderful resort and Liberians actually thriving and bringing a country back to a reputable standing would have been boring and the only interested parties would have been someone going on vacation.