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Monday, November 20, 2017

How just is her justice?

      In the Black Mirror episode White Bear, we watch Victoria get punished throughout the whole episode.  A non-ending punishment that kept me in constant anxiety.  As an audience we believe Victoria is the innocent one and feel compassionate towards her.  But at the climax of the story this perspective completely shifts to the opposite. 
     However, there are a few details in which keep this perspective from being concrete.  Somewhere in our mind we have doubts and question how much fault Victoria holds in the crime of the murder of the 6 year old girl; and, does she even deserve to be getting this punishment?  I suppose that these doubts are because of how our first impressions of her were constructed on her innocence and how she was the victim of every character in the movie.  She had no power over what was happening causing us to feel sympathy for her.  The next unconscious reason why we have our doubts and aren't fully in agreement with her punishment is because later when we find out she played a role in the murder of someone we recognize that she is unaware of what was REALLY going on, especially because her punishment is a daily repetitive cycle.
     So let us move on and focus on her punishment.  Her punishment consists of public humiliation, consistent torture, getting let down when barely gaining trust in someone, and physical pain.  Then after all this torture throughout the day they erase her memory and each day when she wakes up they make her believe she tried to commit suicide.  How fair is this punishment?  Does it even compare to what she did?  This punishment is an example of  a "taste of her own medicine" because the crowd just recorded her as she was getting tortured instead of stepping in to help just like Victoria did to the little 6 year old girl. Just this should be the stopping point because this would be even punishment.  However, in my opinion, I think they did too much by adding everything else and especially by doing this daily. 
     The crowd is a good example of what we do now and days with technology.  It is just like all the videos we see on social media; we find videos in which someone is being oppressed in some type of way, yet the person recording is doing nothing in favor of helping, just obviously he or she is just recording.  In this episode the government is most likely aware of this park and allows it especially if there is ivestment being made.  Could this be a possibility in the future?  How much worse can justice get?

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