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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Is White Bear Justice?

Victoria awakes dazed and confused on a chair in front of a television with a weird sign, pills spilled on the floor and bandage around her wrists. She walks around the house with amnesia and glimpses of a girl. She sees a picture of her, a man and the girl on a fireplace and she figures that she might be her daughter. She leaves the house and sees people watching and filming her passively. Out of the blue, a man with a rifle hunts her down and she runs under the view of the people around constantly recording her. She meets a young woman called Jem that explains to her that most of the population is controlled by a signal from the White Bear transmitted that transforms them into voyeurs. They run to a convenience store in a gas station and the hunter shots and kills Jem's friend Damien. They run to escape and a man called Baxter stops a van and saves them from hunters. But the guy is a hunter himself but they end up being able to flee from him. Jem explains that she intends to burn the White Bear to the ground and they drive to the facility, even though Victoria keeps getting a bad feeling and random flash backs when White Bear is mentioned. When they reach the place, Victoria learns secrets about her and the place where nothing is what seems to be. Victoria ends up finding out that her ex boyfriend killed her daughter in White Bear while she was present recording the whole thing. She finds out that this is her punishment and she has to live with it everyday even though she will forget by morning and will continue to suffer. I believe that what happened to Victoria's daughter was brutal and disheartening. Making her go through what her daughter felt emotionally at the time is what she deserves. But she will never feel what her daughter felt in her last moments. Even though Victoria is suffering for what she did, she gets to forget about what happened and only has glimpses of her memory. She gets reminded at the end of everyday of what she did. I feel like if should be held in her memory of what she did to her little daughter instead of making her forget everyday. There is also no telling how long this experiment/punishment will continue to be effective and serve its purpose for what the people consider justice for the death of her daughter. I do not see how people come to White Bear everyday to see the torment of the woman everyday for their own amusement. It is like the people look forward to seeing someone suffer for their crimes.

3 comments:

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Anonymous said...

I agree with you. It is like the people look forward to seeing someone suffer for their crimes, and, sadly, it just goes to show what kind of world we live in. We might as well go back a couple of centuries to the medieval times. Public executions back then were like the Superbowl to them. However, I do feel as though her punishment was justifiable. Does that contradict what i said previously? I'm not sure.

LexyR228 said...

I agree with what you said about the length of time this punishment could continue. Its hard to imagine that an entire community would dedicate their whole lives to contribute to the punishment of this woman. How long before Victoria cant withstand the memory wiping any longer? To me, this form of punishment seems like a very poorly thought out idea. IT has a beginining but no end...