Sunday, April 23, 2017

White Bear

In the following episode of the series Black Mirror, a lady wakes up not remembering anything. When she stands up, she notices pills all around her and she begins to explore the house she found herself. As she goes outside, she begins to ask people for help but they say nothing and are continuously video taping her with their cellphones. As she continues to explore she runs into two people who then begin to explain to her what has been going on. As they progress through the story, they run into many situations in which they could die. This eventually leads them to White Bear where the woman mentioned at the beginning of the movie finds out that this is a way to make her pay for kidnapping and killing a child. She must suffer by going through the same things she put the child through and at the end of the night the erase her memory and it begins again everyday. I feel as though this is not a good way to punish her for the crime she committed. She may have to relive this everyday now but she does not have time in order to think about what she did and feel any sort of remorse. She may have a hour or two to think about it when they take her back to start the process all over again but during that time she may instead be thinking about having to relive this again. Her entire focus is no longer on what she did but rather what will happen to her. She no longer has the chance to feel guilt for what she did or try to make her wrong right.

1 comment:

  1. good recap of the episode. What could she do to 'make her wrong right' as you put it?

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