Sunday, November 20, 2016
Justice vs Revenge
In the "White Bear" episode of Black Mirror , we see this young woman who is struggling to remember who she is and how she got into this crazy situation. As the show progresses, the viewer thinks that she at one time had one big happy family. We see her with a daughter and a fiancé. As the girl is fighting for survival she sees people recording everything thing that is happening. She is trying to get help, but no one will help her. At the end of the episode there is a plot twist ! This entire scenario is a set up. Her real identity is told to her. She was a an accomplice in a murder because she recorded the murder of the girl her and the fiancé kidnapped. For her punishment they created this park where people could come and be apart of the entire set up of taunting her. Justice is the fair punishment of crime. Revenge is to inflict harm on someone for an injury or harm done to oneself or another. In this episode I believe that they intended to get revenge by frying her brain and reliving this same situation every day. She is not getting fair treatment nor is she learning from the mistake she performed. They are just trying to get her back for what she did. So the name of the park , White Bear Justice Park , is a contradiction of what they were really trying to do. So therefore I say that even though she was wrong, that does not give us the right to play God in the midst of certain situations.
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She really is not getting the punishment that is equal to the crime she committed. If they really wanted to punish her they wouldn't keep taking away her memory. The fact that this has become a daily routine is sickening. It reveals a lot about how sick society is as a whole. No one thought to step up and help stop it at all. I get that what she did was wrong, but who are they to constantly keep torturing Victoria. They all should be in jail then as accessories because they are no better than her because they are watching and recording to instead of stepping up to the late.
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