Is White Bear Considered Justice?

After watching White Bear, I’ve come to the realization that people have misused the word justice. Justice is fair, neutral, and moral. It is not one sided. You would have to figure out what is right or what is wrong in the situation before you could make a just decision. In most cases, when someone does any harm to a child or family member, they would want to seek for revenge to see that person hurt just as bad as the victim have. Depending on the situation, people tend to not think about morality. They would also contradict their original feelings of a subject when it affects them. For instance, you might feel negatively towards a person who has committed a horrendous crime such as murder, but if you have a personal connection with the murderer, then you are likely to be more forgiving than if it was a complete stranger. This would be called acting in favor of the suspect instead of acting in a just way.

In White Bear, I wouldn’t say that what they did to Victoria would be considered as a justifiable punishment because it is neither moral, or rational. Of course they didn’t think about how Victoria would feel because of what she had done. The people were thinking one sided when it came to punishing Victoria. She didn’t actually commit the crime, but she recorded it and that is just as bad as committing the crime according to others because she could have stopped it from happening. It was right to punish her, but being torturing her would be worse than punishing her. A person who believes in morality wouldn’t want to torture another human being because they know that it’s wrong no matter what the person had done. In this case, Victoria didn’t know what she had done. Everyday, they erased her memory. Before they would erase her memory, she would state that she wanted to die, but they still forced her to endure torture which is also not just. How could this be called justice? When you take every detail of the episode and think about it, it can be concluded that this scenario is called revenge, not justice. A just person would look at the whole situation and consider how it would affect both sides. I believe that Victoria shouldn’t have been tortured not only because it wasn’t just, but also because she wasn’t aware of the actions that she took part in.