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 …show more content…
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