Bad Taste

 Bad taste is a substance that is unpallitable and unpleasant. It's also something that seems to have no boundaries in the entertainment world now. I suppose even Shakespeare appealed to certain of the masses who loved his double entendres while others gasped and giggled, but made no issue of it. The latter found it tickled their "naughty" and sometimes we like that. These days of nudie antics on cell phones and movies and videos that seem to be ignorant of what "good taste" is all about, the world is going far, far overboard on what good taste means. Fortunately, when you choose whatever it is you watch or read, you have some kind of warning, be it verbal or left to a kind of viewer instinctive guessing game. Almost always, when the first raunchy, distasteful element arises, you can turn it off in some way, a button or dial, often a mere tap on the screen. Human curiosity, being what it is: natural, sometimes does take a secret peek at what one shouldn't just for fun. Sometimes that can result in being a big mistake especially when it comes to porn and who can and cannot see it. But that's another whole avenue to avoid. Today, I happened on my computer to pick up on what looked like a fun cop show that takes place in a US area known for its social peculiarities. They aren't illegal, but they are out there. The series involves a female policeperson going about her job and her personal life choices, but one scene, however, has her squatting on a beach creating a puddle, if you know what I mean. I am trying to be "tasteful" here. Now, the reason for this is completely missing in the plot and there is no warning about seeing it until it happens. It calls for an ugh.  I do not want to see anyone doing what this actress was actually doing and I am still reeling over how she was talked into doing it for all to view. It has absolutely nothing to do with the plot. More and more we are finding this kind of mistake, happening and hey, I am not happy to see this kind of disgusting display. Does somebody in the media world think it's contemporary and cute? It isn't. There are often large sections cut from tape or film, or whatever it's called these days, but this kind of so -call acting just isn't for and doesn't belong to any story. It is the kind of pre-teen gross-out nonsense that, yes, is childish and unacceptable in our society.  Adults don't want to witness someone relieving their body of waste, thank you very much. It is called Bad Taste to make movies of this human process  for no reason other than attention getting. As to the scenes with fake love-making, so far, they look and are fake but what is the next step when bathroom action becomes a "take". Bad taste extends to other scenes and themes that are becoming more and more excruiating for viewers. And why? It appears to be a case of never mind how grossly tasteless the scene is, it gets attention, much as slipping on a banana peel and taking a prat fall is supposed to be funny. Sadly, most of us do laugh at it. Who is the audience that enjoys scenes that are tasteless and degrading for actors? The average person wants a film or video streaming, that is entertaining and comfortable and appealing and makes a person thoughtful or amused or curious or happy or even a bit sad, but disgusting scenes are just plain negative. They aren't art. Merely, they show how low media mavens stoop to capture only the watcher's shock while eschewing art.