A Toilet Known as Sundance
2007-01-27
Posted by: badanov
We are a fan of the Fox sitcom Married with Children.
One of the funniest episodes is where Al decides to build his own bathroom, what Peg calls a "monument to his (Al's) regularity."
Al explains to a reluctant Bud about the toilet brand Ferguson:
"Bud, the toilets today aren't worthy of the name. They come in designer colors, they're too low, and when you flush them they make this little weak, almost apologetic sound.
Not the Ferguson. It only comes in white and when you flush it -- BA WOOSH! -- That's a man's flush, Bud. A Ferguson says, 'I'm a toilet: sit down and give me your best shot.'"
Reading journalism critic Brent Bozell's column on the Sundance Film Festival reminded us of that scene, only the toilet should be re-branded the Sundance. Better, the Film Festival should be rebranded a toilet festival.
We like to watch cop shows, inasmuch as the characters are sanitized anymore and the show is more about touchy feely stuff than about solving crimes.
One of the bad trends is the tendency, now moving into a full blown hysteria, of show writers to feature dramas that include children as victims. Crimes against children are horrid to be sure, but we fail, to see the value in using this segment of society as a focus for viewers' sympathies, what cop dramas seek to do anymore. We once declared a while back we would switch over any program that featured children as victims because the work product is often poor, and you get the sense that featuring children as victims is the only way show writers can show cops to be more human than cops.
Now, it's everywhere so we are facing a moment in which we may be forced to abandon some show simply because we believe that children should not be featured as victims.
We know that in time, this trend will be shown to be a lazy writer's way of writing good fiction, to substitute sensational material for good writing and a good plot, but for now, it's just stuff to go into the old Ferguson Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance, the film institute started by leftist actor Robert Redford has descended into the toilet as well. Films which are shown at a venue in Colorado were once considerfed to be trendy or hip ( whatever that means ) but the films on display there now, such as the documentary on bestiality named Zoophile is material we would prefer to use to start the charcoal grill going for a nice grilled hamburger or some ribs.
Worse, now Sundance is featuring child pornography in the form of a child rape scene featuring child actress Dakota Fanning. Liberals and leftists will complain about this characterization of the film as child pornography, and such countercriticism is emblematic of the depths film making has gone.
Hollyweird and its bastard child Sundance have fallen so far in the last ten years with such garbage that we don't know how they can redeem themselves as tellers of morality tales, castigating evil criminals who prey on children even as film folks do the same to turn a buck, or win an approving nod of Redford.
We believe, and having been a former leftwinger we shoud know, that the liberalism which Hollyweird and Sundance has saddled itself with over the years is a contradiction. You cannot be a liberal without either lying about the facts which support your views, or without contradicting your own beliefs.
Condemning criminals who prey on children in fiction while using children in sex scenes is but one of untold numbers of contradictions and lies which allows Hollyweird and Sundance to sell this garbage as art.
In time we suspect if Hollyweird/Sundance wants to avoid an eventual child pornographer label, they will clean up their own act.
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