Don't You Think She's Had Enough Already?

White Bear is a short film that puts everyone's emotions on a roller coaster. Throughout most of the film, the plot causes the audience to feel sympathy for the young woman who is obviously clueless, but when we get to the end, we suddenly feel that she deserves the punishment and situation that she constantly experiences. We unfortunately live in a world where people do bad things. We punish people when they behave badly, but how do we know when someone has truly learned their lesson?

Ever since I have seen the process of Victoria's day in the White Bear Justice Park, it has caused  me to wonder when a person has had enough punishment. The process of constantly erasing someone's memory, torturing them, and then erasing their memory again to repeat the process can be a very intense punishment. I'm not sure how long her brain can undergo that process, but if it was up to me, I would've said that she could've learned her lesson after that on time. Once the crowd of people begin to call her names and make her feel bad, she understood that what she did was bad, and she learned from that. I think that erasing her memory again was unnecessary.

I think that when a person understands their wrong doing, that makes them know that they shouldn't perform that action again. When this happens, they have truly learned their lesson. Now, I understand that some people can learn their lesson, but that doesn't mean that they won't behave badly again. I personally think that those people should stay in rehabilitation for their lives if they can't understand that they can't behave in a certain way. When people are released back into society the first time, but they perform the same way that they did at first, that is when they should remain in rehabilitation. This is the only possible solution that can occur without just killing them, which would be totally wrong.

Another thing that wondered my mind while watching the end of the film is how long it would take her to remember what is happening to her every day. Everyday she remembers a little more what's happening to her, so what if one day she remembers everything after her memory is wiped, and she understands what is happening? Will she try to escape? Will she go mad? If this happens, we will know if she has truly learned her lesson. If she tries to kill someone, then she obviously hasn't learned her lesson, but if she tries to go back into society as a normal person, then she understands that what she did is wrong, and she doesn't want to continue to suffer this way. If that happened, we know that she has truly learned her lesson.