Thou shall not be a victim, thou shall not be a perpetrator, but above all else, though shall never be a bystander.

This video was very interesting to me. In my high school, we had a saying posted on the wall in the front hallway that read " Thou shall not be a victim, thou shall not be a perpetrator, but above all else, though shall never be a bystander". The reason I say this is during our class discussion, someone pointed out that even though she didn't commit the murder, she was being punished on the lines that seemed even crueler than the way our criminal justice system punishes murderers. Upon hearing that comment, that quote immediately came to mind. I began to wonder if watching someone else commit a murder is just as bad as committing the crime yourself; If anything, there is little difference between the two. If you're watching this terribly inhuman action and encourage it the same way the girl in the film did, it's just as despicable. The murderer's accomplice should be punished the same way the actual perpetrator is punished. Since the actual murderer in the film committed suicide before he could stand trial, we as an audience have no way of knowing if he would've been subjected to the same form of torment this girl has to undergo day after day for the foreseeable future. But this type of punishment makes the viewer question this form of punishment. Is it moral? Is it just? To some extent possibly, seeing that by definition it follows Hammurabi's code of an eye for an eye. But since the criminal is having her memory wiped after finding out she did these terrible things, she has no way of possibly being reformed and the people inflicting this punishment soon begin to enter the wrong side of morality. So who's the real criminal here? I refuse to believe that this solution is reasonable punishment that our society would come up with to punish criminals; however, the media today does a horrible thing by glorifying our greatest criminals to some extent. Their faces are plastered on our TV screens for weeks, they often come up as a main topic in everyday conversations, and often times encourages others to do similar acts knowing that the end result will give them this sick and deluded type of stardom. The film was excellently made by allowing the audience to follow its proposed protagonist and feel sympathy for her up until the very last moment when the veil was lifted and brought together the reasons for why all these strange events were happening.