At the beginning, I thought that the film was about how
society is too in tune with technology to help this poor innocent woman. At the
end, it is revealed that the woman is convicted criminal that is being
punished. The woman filmed her fiancé torturing and murdering a little girl.
The punishment the woman receives for her crime is worse than death. She has
her memory erased every night, wakes up not knowing who she is, gets chased by
people who seem to be trying to kill her, finds out who she really is and is forced
to do it over and over again. Is this justice? Well, yes and no. The first time
it is done it is justice, because she feels what the little girl must have felt
and is remorseful. However, the next fifteen or so times are no longer justice
but torture. The woman is not learning a lesson by constantly having her memory
erased. She is an innocent person unaware of why she is doing what she is
doing. The remorse that she feels when her identity is revealed to her is wiped
away once they erase her memory. If the true purpose of the park was to make
her sorry for her crime, then erasing her memory is defeating the purpose. I
think that the woman and her fiancé’s case drew so much attention that the park
was made to profit off of the popularity of the case. People came from far and
near to participate in the show, and torture the woman. The park is far crueler
than being hanged, the electric chair, or lethal injection. At least with those
other punishments, the person only has to experience it once. This woman has to
experience psychological torture every day for being a bystander. Yes, she was
wrong for filming the crime, instead of trying to stop it, but not even the
worst criminal on earth deserves the torture the woman is put through. No one
knows what was going on in her and her fiancé’s relationship, and honestly no
one cares. That’s just not human nature to think about what goes on in someone’s
home that might cause them to act in certain ways. Even after I found out what
she did, I felt bad for her, and wanted someone to help her. I think that the
people and owners of the park allowed their personal feeling to cloud their judgement
of what true justice is.
6 comments:
I agree with you that continuing to torture someone over and over and having them not remember is worse than death because you only experience death once, but Victoria had to experience that every day. Eventually the stress and anxiety will kill her because it will be too much to handle. The people videoing her were doing the same thing that she did, so why were they not punished like she was fro videoing someone going through such pain?
I think in terms of the content of what Caitlynn was trying to express about the injustices that the woman had to go through, she does a good job; however she could have been a little bit more specific and tried to explain what the intensities were, and what to expect as far as the injustice. She also did a good job with expressing how she felt what the woman had to go through. The ideal thing to do was touched on, but if she had spent a little bit more time talking about what the steps taken were to prevent this type of injustice, it would've made it more interesting for little bit. The Way that the woman's feelings were expressed and conveyed in her blog had more emotion and expressed much more sympathy than I had expected. I had expected Kateland to be non-shallot about it however it was not surprising that she felt for the woman because she thought the woman's injustices were given the amount of times that had been played it back to her and even had occurred.
I completely agree that the punishment she receives is worse than death because she has to suffer rather than just be killed and end the pain. I also agree that the woman is simply going in a circle and not learning a lesson for what she did. I think the people who own the park did indeed take the wrong path and let their judgement go astray. If the woman is being punished like this for her crime, why aren't there other people in the park receiving the same punishment, because I can imagine there are worse crimes committed than hers.
I agree because with her memory bring erased everyday she isn't learning anything. So at that point it's not justice because justice is in place for one to learn from their mistakes and become a better person. Yhey aren't allowing her to grow. They are doing it for their satisfaction alone. And staging it as if shr was a science exhibit was and is inhumane.
I agree because with her memory bring erased everyday she isn't learning anything. So at that point it's not justice because justice is in place for one to learn from their mistakes and become a better person. Yhey aren't allowing her to grow. They are doing it for their satisfaction alone. And staging it as if shr was a science exhibit was and is inhumane.
I do agree on how she should be punished and there should be justice. But I do not believe that they should do this at all. It is justice but so is rotting away in a jail cell. If I was her I would definitely rather have my mind erased every night because I would live one day at a time and for most of that day not even have to feel bad about being a killer because I would not know I am. I think if you just throw her in cell she would have to live with that for ever rather than just an hour of everyday.
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