In the recently viewed episode, White Bear, we learn about a mysterious woman who wakes up to what appears to be an attempted suicide and a strange symbol on the television. As she observes her surroundings, she comes to realize that she’s in an empty house with no memory of herself or where she is, but her main objective is to find who she believes is her daughter. Once she leaves the house, everyone she attempts to speak with completely ignores her as they record her with their cellphones due to a signal being sent to them. In addition to this, she is also being chased by a sadistic, murderous group known as Hunters who are out to kill her. Along the road, she meets a woman named Jem and they work together to find a control center called “White Bear” in order to break the signal that’s been controlling people. When she’s not about to be shot or tortured, the mysterious woman suddenly gets spontaneous visions of her lost memories and slowly tries to piece together her past. The moment the two arrive, they become cornered by the two Hunters that’s been chasing them earlier in the episode. When the fight reaches the climax, the stage unfolds and our protagonist is being cuffed to a chair in front of an audience. From here, we discover that the amnesiac is the infamous Victoria Skillane who helped participate in the abduction, torture, murder of a young girl named Jemime Sykes with her fiance Iain Rannoch. She is then paraded back to the abandoned house from where she woke in a popemobile as people scream “bloody murder” and “ burn in hell”. She is set in place and Baxter, the facilitator of the ruse places electrodes on the sides of her head and turns on the video that Victoria recorded of little Jemime. Baxter then leaves the room and preps the house for the next day as Victoria screams in complete agony.After watching all of this go down, I just sit there in awe of how far people are willing to go to get justice. I’d want to say that what they’re doing was all forms of messed up, but what she did wasn’t any better. Although the “eye for an eye” scenario seemed to be justified, but they are endlessly torturing a woman who doesn’t even know who she is let alone what she did. She is now living a life of fear and “uncertainty”. They have this woman running around like she’s mad, and Victoria is thinking she’s about to get murdered and/or tortured. As she’s bawling her eyes out for a crime that’s barely even a memory, people are taking joy in her suffering. When Baxter told her that her “crocodile tears” are making him sick, I’ve realized that those tears are not fake. She is legitimately scared out of her mind as people are terrorizing her. These people are no better than she is. True, she didn’t torture and kill Jemime, but recording the crime was still immoral. Just like torturing this woman is immoral. It’s merely hypocritical.
I won’t lie, though. If it were my family member that was tortured and killed, I’d be happy to give the perpetrator hell regardless of how messed up I’d become or how messed up my methods may be. Sadistic as it may be, it’d be worth it. Maybe I’d constantly electrocute him or her like people do Clayton Leigh in the Black Museum episode. ( Except my person would actually be guilty of their crime.)
6 comments:
Yes, Victoria was clueless throughout the whole movie and very shooken. Victoria was only a witness and she did not portray the act of killing the child although she is much guilty too with being there during the killing. How do we even know if she was forced or not to even do that? We are only centered to Victoria’s life , where is her fiancé? What type of treatment was given to him?
I agree with your sentiment up until your final paragraph. I find it really hard to see myself wishing that type of punishment on somebody even if that person hurt a family member or myself. Granted, I do not have a child nor has anything criminal happened to one of my family members, so I obviously cannot fully relate. However, I feel like the guilt I would feel after the weeks, or months, or years of torturous punishment would outweigh the small gratification that I would get at the beginning by issuing the "eye for an eye" policy. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. Maybe that would change if I actually experienced something similar.
It is amazing how far people are willing to go, to cause someone pain. Like you said, what Victoria did was immoral, but what the people are doing is just as immoral. Why even make her lose her memories in the first place. At least then should would know why she was being punished. I would do the same if it came down to somebody hurting a family member as you mentioned, even though I wouldn't be better than the actual criminal.
In this case, i completely agree the punishment was warranted up until a certain extent. I believe it would have been the perfect punishment if she had gone through the torture once and learned her lesson. Going through the justice park everyday for the entire month of October is a bit excessive and inhumane, however. If i were the parent of the child she killed, i would be perfectly fine with this punishment as long as she learned hr lesson, but in this case she isn't learning anything, shes just being tortured.
Ideally the punishment is sufficient. But if you really look into all the specs of it you come to realize that it is unhumane. What her daughter went through is probably no where close to what they are making her feel but it should not be a constant thing she is going through. From the ending it seemed like Victoria had learned her lesson so why make her go through it all over again. To me it seems unhealthy for the public and actors participating. Watching and participating in such acts can mess with your head and train of thought. Seeing such events play out could turn someone into a sycopath and end up doing what Victoria did or worst. There should have been a time limit to this punishment.
I think it's important to look at how people perceive the crime. Yes some may see the situation as too far, but the people that lived in that town saw it very differently. There was no line for them to cross because Victoria had crossed one.
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