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Friday, April 8, 2016

Do we do this?

At the beginning of this video, it was surprising to me that there were so many different situations that we, who are watching this show would never think could or would happen in today's society. In the show, the common people that just stood in the windows and just watched her look confused and distraught was something that we do in this society today. Social media and the news has a ton of uploads from people who just stand on the sidelines and record the event. This whole show was to me a sort of metaphor for how this age was addicted to their phones and I just thought that it was a sort of extreme situation that could happen to this society if everyone's screens were made to hypnotize the population to act this way that they were in this show. I was just trying to think of it as though it was a zombie apocalypse or the "Hunger Games", so I would not have to think that this could be real. I was trying to come up with reasons to why this story was real and how it could be real, however, in the end, it was somehow the closest thing I could think of that would end up being real in today's world.
Everything that happened in the show was something that this society was and still do on an hourly basis. The ending was the most shocking to me. The way that they set up everything just to teach her a lesson or to rehabilitate her was the extreme of situations that happen in this world and how this could possibly happen is terrifying. Not just the overall punishment and/or torture of the lady but the fact that they have her memory wiped and have her go through the same situation every day. I think that because her memory was wiped and she does not know who she is or what she has done is cruel and completely immoral to do something to someone that does not remember. Then on top of that, the others create this scenario that she tries to kill herself in an attempt to escape the crazy world she thought that she lived it and the others expect her to think of what her life use to be and in the end, they tell her who she truly is, then shame her even more.

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