Recap
In this episode of Black Mirror, we see a woman who wakes up in a house with a glitch symbol in each television screen. The woman doesn't remember her name at all and starts to look around for clues. She then runs into a picture of a little girl. The woman assumes it's hers and tries to look around for her. After the woman leaves the house, she notices a group of people or paparazzi with phones in their hands taking pictures of her like she's an animal. Shortly after that, a guy with a glitch symbol on his hat starts chasing her and shooting at her. After being chase, she meets an individual, Jem, who tries to help her go to a place called "White Bear" to shut down the glitch signals.
The first stop they go to is the house that the woman found herself. Jem starts to ask the woman questions about her personal life and soon discovers that the woman doesn't know herself and trying t find her lost daughter.
In the middle of her journey, she starts to have flashbacks on different events that happened before the incidents. The more stops that the two makes, the more flashbacks she has which lead her to a guilt feeling. As soon as the two arrive at the white bear area, the woman felt more guilt and had flashbacks revealing a white teddy bear in a car. After having the flashback, she tried her hardest to turn back to the city they originally came from. At the end of their journey, she soon discovers that it was a trap to get her in trial.
During the trial, the woman begins to learn who she was and why she was in the situation she was in. The video revealed that the woman name was Victoria, and she was married to a man name Iain. The two individuals abducted a little girl name "Jemima." Jemima was the little girl in the photo that Victoria discovered in the house. The little girl had a white teddy bear with her throughout the abduction. The video also revealed that both Iain and Victoria tortured the girl and Iain burned the little girl body as Victoria filmed the whole thing. As the video ended, Victoria realizes her actions and begin to show emotions towards the video. The people in charge of the setup, put her back in the house she was in and hook her up to a piece of technology that make her loses her memory and bring her back to the starting point. At the end of the episode, it shows the setup and that it turns out to be a amusement park for people to watch Victoria and take pictures of her like she's a animal in a exhibit.
Opinion
After watching this film, the question that was frequently ask was, "Is this just or not?" At first, I replied, it's just and the way they handled the situation was right. My justification was the actions she committed wouldn't be acceptable in today's time. If we heard a little girl being murdered, we would want the murderers to feel pain and guilt for their actions. If anything, we would be doing the same except not taking it to far to making it a fair or an amusement park. One thing we do, in this period, is make a funny meme out of things.
Now the murderer becomes a laughing stock on the internet that will soon go viral. And as always, someone would make a remix or a parody out it for more comedy laughter. As we do these actions, do anyone always wonder does this make us inhumane like the murderer? How could we sit back and watch the pain of a murderer and laugh about it? If anything, this put us in the same boat as the murderer. As my philosopher professor brought up, if they were to livestream the execution of the killer, a huge amount of people would sit there and watch for their satisfaction.
My philosopher professor also explained the "eye for an eye" statement which made me rethink my justification and position on the film. We wouldn't want a professional rapist raping other rapist because then it'll be a messed up system within the United states. I'm glad that my philosopher changed my way of thinking. I don't want people to think that it's morally right to torture someone and put them in their misery for their actions. Another thing that my philosopher teacher brought up is "Do you think the Victoria that is being tortured is the same Victoria originally?"
My answer to that is no, I don't think that the Victoria being tortured is the same Victoria originally. The Victoria being tortured is just like us and unaware of her actions and consequences. I hate that she's being tortured for something her fiancé did (assumption that she's not really a part of the torturing of the little girl). I feel like two things would happen if they burn signals to her memories. She would either die from her brain being fried, which would really be inhumane for us as human beings. Or, she would suddenly remember that she's being tortured and knows everyone singled move, so she goes out and try to murder them all. Let's hope that we won't get to fair in technology that it causes us to be inhumane people even though it's somewhat that way now.
Now the murderer becomes a laughing stock on the internet that will soon go viral. And as always, someone would make a remix or a parody out it for more comedy laughter. As we do these actions, do anyone always wonder does this make us inhumane like the murderer? How could we sit back and watch the pain of a murderer and laugh about it? If anything, this put us in the same boat as the murderer. As my philosopher professor brought up, if they were to livestream the execution of the killer, a huge amount of people would sit there and watch for their satisfaction.
My philosopher professor also explained the "eye for an eye" statement which made me rethink my justification and position on the film. We wouldn't want a professional rapist raping other rapist because then it'll be a messed up system within the United states. I'm glad that my philosopher changed my way of thinking. I don't want people to think that it's morally right to torture someone and put them in their misery for their actions. Another thing that my philosopher teacher brought up is "Do you think the Victoria that is being tortured is the same Victoria originally?"
My answer to that is no, I don't think that the Victoria being tortured is the same Victoria originally. The Victoria being tortured is just like us and unaware of her actions and consequences. I hate that she's being tortured for something her fiancé did (assumption that she's not really a part of the torturing of the little girl). I feel like two things would happen if they burn signals to her memories. She would either die from her brain being fried, which would really be inhumane for us as human beings. Or, she would suddenly remember that she's being tortured and knows everyone singled move, so she goes out and try to murder them all. Let's hope that we won't get to fair in technology that it causes us to be inhumane people even though it's somewhat that way now.
1 comment:
I'm glad as well that the professor explained the 'eye for an eye" case because at first I thought it was just that she be treated like that but it also made sense to me that we wouldn't want a system in the U.S. where rapist would rape a rapist.
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