Is It Really Teaching Her?

"White Bear” is a short story from the eerie series Black Mirror. The beginning scene opens up to a young woman that seems to be forcibly placed in a chair. The woman wakes up and has no idea who she is or what is going on. She starts to investigate the house around her and on every television screen is a symbol that plays a high pitch tone. As she wonders out of the house, she sees people watching her from the windows. The woman begs for the people within the windows to help her, but they do not help her. She is terrified as the next moment a car with a mask gets out of a car and tries to shoot her. The woman runs across town with the entire community staring at her through their phones. She finds two people that come across as normal and joins them. The three of them try to run away from the masked man; with unfortunately one of them gets shot by the man. The other woman explains to the main character why these people are acting this way and that the signal needs to be stopped. The main character and the other woman found agree to stick together and shut down the signal tower, located at White Bear. The woman receives small bits of flashbacks of a little girl and a young man. The two get picked up by a strange man that drives them into the woods, but he has tricked them in order to kill them both. After a bit of struggle, they shoot the crazed man and are able to escape to White Bear. The main character realizes that there is something wrong with White Bear and freaks out about going there. The two women reach the facility and try to set the place on fire.The two woman are caught and begin to fight for their lives. The main character picks up the gun to shoot her attacker, only to have confetti pop out. The facility then opens up to stage and we finally learn what's going on. The main character is a woman named Victoria, who kidnapped a little girl and videotaped her fiance torturing the girl. Then after the information is told to Victoria about what she did, they take her back to clear her memory, and start the whole thing over again. We see the similarities between Victoria and the little girl. Both were scared, frighten, and were videotaped instead of being helped. This was an eye for an eye justice. I do not see how this effective in rehabilitating Victoria. The person that committed the crime is not the same person being punished. She does not remember committing the crime at all, so there is no connection between identity and memory. If they wanted to effectively teach her a lesson, they should do the action once and then inform her about what she did wrong. I'm not sure how I feel about this eye for eye justice. For some cases I can agree with it, but for others it just seems a little much. If it were to be used in our criminal justice system, it needs to be critiqued some before it is made into the real thing.