White Bear

Last week in class, we watched the short film White Bear and to be honest, it was one of the more disturbing/confusing things I’ve seen in awhile. While I do agree that what the woman and her significant other did was wrong, is she really learning her lesson by going through the same thing everyday yet not remembering any of it? I think making her go through it all at once and then letting her sit alone in a cell and maybe showing her on video over and over again would be more tortuous than erasing her memory and doing it all again. What she did was wrong there is no denying that at all. She deserves everything that she was put through if not more. While it may be just I do not think that it was morally right. However, neither was kidnapping and killing an innocent little child, even worse was that she recorded it all happening and did nothing to stop it. If you live by the motto, “treat others how you want to be treated” then yes, it definitely is fair and just in all aspects of that. Yet, that is not the kind of society or government we live in. Everyone is expected an equal trial and a fair/just punishment for their actions. But that is not the case and I think that is what the film was trying to depict. Not everyone has a fair trial, it is often corrupted by false evidence or even from the biasness of the judge or even the jury for that matter. Even though they go through the jury “thoroughly” and try to prevent that from happening, people still aren’t one hundred percent honest even in the court of law. I am interested to discuss in class what other people think about this film and the real life justice system.