It Wasn't Me Now

The short film “White Bear” was a bizarre and horrid thing to watch. A show that centered on of torturing a convicted felon in twisted “Justice” theme park is wrongly inhumane that makes capital punishment seemed to be a better punishment if comparing the two. To re-experience in a cycle of intense horror every day and to be force to forget the whole thing is totally unethical and immoral. I felt pity for the woman and at the near end of the show, a sense of disgust surfaced when the event was finally revealed entertainment show for people to watch and participate. When the truth was told about the woman’s background, I was astonished. The past version of her was a ruthless person who partook of abducting and murdering a little girl. However, the current person was nothing like that, but an innocent person.

Though, in my opinion, it was still wrong for her to helped her fiancé to murder a young child. It does not free her of her past crimes because she was sane or was in a reasonable state when she partook the crime. Physically she should be held accountable for her actions, her punishment should be reasonable and humane way, but not in the way what happened in the film did. Torture is not the correct way of carrying out a justifiable punishment. Putting her in a theme park that is dedicated of her being psychological torture is unreasonable. Having no memories of her misdeeds, she was punished still. This is just cruel and there is no merit of punishing her when she does not know why she is being punish for. There is no form of rehabilitation or attempt to help convict felon to repent. To be repent is having the convict realize his or her mistakes and make an effort to turn his or her life around to prevent future crimes. To do that is acknowledging that the person is human, no matter what the crime.

            Unfortunately, it was not the case for the woman. The people treated her as a monster or an animal that is used for their sense of entertainment. For whatever reason, the people did not think that whatever they are doing, they are helping and encouraging the use of torture. They refuse to accept that the woman in her current form is a different person now, but still believed that her past and current form are one the same. I believed that way of thinking is flaw and people can change over time. One can clearly see that when they showed the woman of her past, she herself was shocked of who she was. Her facial expression described that she would have not of thought that she was able to help kill a little girl. Nobody, in my opinion, is born evil naturally, but only through experience.