Tuesday, August 25, 2009

"Cape Town"

Three Sheets

I like "Three Sheets", I like Zane, and I like the show's premise. This particular episode actually has a very disturbing political undercurrent.

In Cape Town, Zane goes to a shanty town to try the local brew. The shanty town has approximately one million inhabitants. The level of poverty is stunning, it is gut wrenching. These people are living in shacks and misery, its very disturbing.

The second disturbing scene is a bar in Cape Town where a particular type of alcohol is on tap. Its not the usual spigot we know. The liquid comes out of the anus of some stuffed deer or ram, only the hind section of the animal is mounted as a spigot. This is supposed to be funny. It is brutal, it is the lowest level of sadistic humor that is all too common. Where is the respect for life and where is dignity? One would like to see the bar owner's own ass mounted on the wall.

No comments: