Forgive and Forget (How Not)

In this short film White Bear, I was shown the worst of a community attempting to punish a woman who's wrongdoing ultimately led to this dark demise spearheaded by the true perpetrators of evil, the spectators. In the movie, she truly did not knw her own identity because of them literally whipping her memory every time she went through that hellacious endeavor. Ask yourself this question, she is being reminded of a crime that she did after she does not even remember what she committed and punished because of it. Doesn't that sound a little unreasonable? What they put her through just seems unreasonable and cruel punishment honestly. Imagine being in her shoes, in a scenario in which you are benign to the environment that you are placed in and as you ae being chased by homicidal maniacs with shotguns and cleavers while people just watch you with cell phones in hand not trying in the littlest bit to help in anyway and people are doing this over and over again with this poor unsuspecting woman. That is inhumane! I personally believe that is not the correct way for someone to enforce justice upon evildoers such as the woman. As said in class, you would not want to have someone do act with the same level of crime that they committed such as rape and others. Is that something that you would be comfortable ordaining? This violates the 8th amendment but as noted in class, that amendment is broken literally everyday in America in almost every prison. I believe one of the main reasons they do this to her, is to make money. In the film, they turn her torture into a public amusement all in the fair game of capitalism. This woman is literally telling the guy "Please kill me" at the end of it all but he does not care at all, and neither does anyone else because he just wants to make money and he has them brainwashed into thinking that she is this super evil entity that deserves all this pain and torment but in a way she deserves justice for her action but this is just too much. I say it is time to forgive this woman for her past debts that she cannot even remember because of the constant brainwashes. In the words of Jean Paul Startre, "We are our choices." but knowing she even isn't the same person she was before he memory is gone... Is she really the same person?