In the “White Bear”, a criminal whose husband tortured and murdered a little girl while she videotaped it is subjected to a punishment that is worse than death itself. She was forced to wake up in an apartment, dazed and confused, and hunted down for the amusement of a live studio audience. She would be hunted down by “actors” while many people just watched and videotaped it.
She would go around, dazed and confused asking people for help. They would just stand back and watch. They would then reveal that she was a criminal, who watched as her husband tortured and murdered a confused girl for months. At the end of the day, her memory would be wiped, to repeat it again.
A majority of people would say that this was what she deserved. It’s only fair, right? Well, yes. Fairness is one of those things that is hard to define. The most common definition is getting done to you exactly what you did to them. She just stood back and watched as a dazed and confused girl tries to figure out what is going on. The girl was confused for months, wondering why exactly somebody was taping instead of helping.
The video never elaborated about how long her punishment would last. It would be fair if she repeated it for the same amount of time as when she had the girl.
While it was “fair”, I don’t want to call it “just”. The girl who taped the torture and murder of a girl was not the same person who went through this unauthorized play. the one thing that I noted during the actual video was towards the end, when she got her hands on a shotgun. She hesitated.
I believe that if she was the “menace to society” that she was made out to be, she would shoot without question. The evil girl who committed the crime would happily shoot. But the criminal is no longer the same as the confused person in front of the audience. She has no memory of the crime.
I also believe that this punishment is not justice as it makes the others no better. She was being punished for observing a confused girl who was obviously in danger. The observers did the same thing as she did. They observed a confused girl who was obviously in danger. They are no better than she was.
1 comment:
You're right when you say that the observers become just as evil as she was because they watched her struggle in the same way as the little girl struggled. The justice the people are using changes them from good citizens to malicious monsters just as the woman was. It's hypocritical of them to serve this justice because they are becoming just as sick as her.
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