The short movie White
Bear completely confused me. At first, I thought that the movie was
advocating for something along the lines of people filming acts of violence;
for some reason, I equated these acts to police brutality. When the ending was
finally revealed to me, I was stunned. I never thought a movie like this would
end in such a manner. The movie, in my opinion, took a stance as to not support
capital punishment, but they supported ideas that would be considered
torturous. In any jail, prison, health facility today, if anything similar to
the movie took place, CNN would tear them a new one. The actions that took
place in the movie, however, do make me question the true meaning of justice.
If I had been the father of that little girl, or even if she was a member of
the same community as me, I would want as much suffering to take place on the
involved parties. This torture she is experiencing would be a nice appetizer
for what I had in store. The main problem with my solution is that there is no
rehabilitation for the guilty person. If you lock a bunch of criminals up
together in an environment where they get to know each other well, you only
create more problems (gangs, especially). In my opinion, the more humane thing
to do with this person would be to kill them. The torture she is experiencing
from this repeated experience isn’t helping her to become a better person. She
cannot begin to rebuild herself because she is unable to remember who she is
for longer than an hour. She did commit a heinous crime, so she deserves to be
punished. In modern society, people that have committed crimes of this degree
will likely not ever see freedom ever again (at least they shouldn’t, Casey),
and to hold someone captive, providing them with free healthcare, shelter,
food, clothes --- all the things honest, hardworking Americans often struggle
to provide for themselves --- is completely asinine. That is the reason I find
capital punishment to be a very righteous end to her means in this situation.
The biggest problem I see with this punishment is that it is empty. At the end
of the day, the woman gets to forget what she did while everyone else in
society has to live with the loss of that little girl. In the end, there is no
closure, but only more bitter disappointment.
2 comments:
I somewhat agreed with almost everything you said. However she should experience this over and over again. They shouldnt wipe her memory the last time and just lock her in a room by herself until she goes mad. They they can kill her. That's real justice.
You say that "she committed a heinous crime," but who is "she"? The Victoria who filmed the torture and murder of a little girl, or the woman who can't remember her own name much less the atrocities her body committed? I agree that the crime committed was absolutely terrible and disgusting, but I don't agree that she should be killed. What does killing Victoria as she was at the end of the movie accomplish? It doesn't bring back the child who was killed, and it doesn't properly serve justice because the woman at the end of the movie, in my opinion, is not the same as the woman who aided a murderer. She has the same body, but not the same mind–which is more important in defining who someone is?
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