Wednesday, November 22, 2017

White Bear

         At the beginning of "White Bear" we see a disoriented young woman waking up from her sleep. It's evident that she was strapped to the chair she was in and supposedly tried to commit suicide because of the many pills scattered on the floor. As the story progresses we see her in a frenzy trying to remember or understand what has happened since she was "sleep". She is unaware why the town people are constantly recording her while she is screaming out for help. At the end of the story we see that this is all a big game and they are making her relive a crime. Those supposedly helpers and killers are in actuality actors playing a role and those town people recording are regular civilians who paid to basically torture this woman.
          As the audience watching this, I was absolutely confused into why people would want to pay and witness other individuals harming another human being. The actors present this video of the woman and her finance kidnapping a young girl. This kidnapping went viral and it was a world wide search party for the finding of the little girl. The video tells that the woman and her finance tortured and killed the girl all while recording the whole event. Now the woman has to face the guilt and embarrassment of committing this crime in front of many people. We also see the men carrying the woman right back to the same house as earlier so they can shock her in order to erase her memory, all because they are going to continue to repeat the same actions over and over again.
          First off, those actors are not God or the law system. They had no right tormenting that woman all because of the crime she committed. Secondly, how do I know that she actually committed this crime. All I could know is that they staged this whole thing and the woman actually did nothing wrong, because the little girl actually looked happy and was smiling in all of the videos presented. This whole story was very sad to see once I realized that they were risking the woman's health and sanity all because of money and viewers.

1 comment:

  1. You bring up a good point: why do people enjoy watching others in pain?

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