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Friday, April 8, 2016

Thanks For the Memories!

       She did commit a horrible crime, the act of watching someone do something heinous and refusing to even attempt to stop them. However, their ends of punishment did not match the means. They wiped her memory and essentially made her into a completely innocent person every time she woke up. With no memories of past events and being under the assumption that she had a family that was most likely dead, she was a completely different "person" from the woman who committed the crime. I feel as though the punishment would have been more pertinent if they gave her the memory of  what she did. However, That is all she knows for sure and everything else is just a blur, then continue with the traumatizing scenario as they originally planned it.
        I can't help but think how fitting the punishment was for 1 reason. When she got angry at the onlookers for just staring and not helping is most likely how that little girl felt. The little girls line of thought was likely " Why isn't she helping me? I'm yelling and crying in pain but you won't put the camera down to stop him."
          After watching white bear I don't completely disagree with the movies basis. You do a grotesque blood curdling act and I make a little Hell on Earth for to you ensure you know how that felt for the victim. I feel like this would also be a giant fear factor to people who were planning to do something morally horrid, thus giving them a huge reason not to commit the crime. While, It is hard to explain why you shouldn't do something for moral reason, it is easy to comprehend fear and decide your actions accordingly. In their world I feel as though they must have had more parks. Since this form of torture became entertaining for them they will inevitably get bored with watching the same show, just like how regular people get bored watching the same tv show over and over. People will lose interest and demand another sacrifice in their supposed game of  justice. Furthermore, the toy they've found in that woman will eventually break causing them to go on the hunt for another spectacle.
     The part that made the movie all the more gruesome was when they showed they'd been making her relive the same day for 3 weeks. Sure the first 3 days, but after that it became a spectacle and not justice. When they invite others to the park and make it a "fun" experience for visitors it ends justice for the little girl and begins entertainment for the people who view it.
      

4 comments:

Tirzah said...

I agree with your idea of she should not have been stripped of her memory, that way it would've been a little more justified to torture her the way they did.

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Unknown said...

I totally agree. I felt that after a while, punishment ended, and torture began. The difference is, torture is meant for entertainment, punishment is meant for rehabilitation.

Anonymous said...

I agree that their punishment did not match their means. Wiping out her memory served no purpose in this sense. She doesn't remember anything, so it is torture.