Questions I ask

As an audience, we may not truly ever really understand the motif behind the creators’ decisions. “White Bear” has so many different possibilities that even in class; we couldn’t even conclude the many concepts that went into this short film. There seemed to be a ton of questionable scenes and actions that from the beginning of the episode, I felt like something wasn’t right; with the major plot twists, it was kind of improbable to figure out what was going on.

Firstly, I was questioning why the tattoo was used as a symbol. The fiancé’s tattoo, maybe it was conditioning the female to something negative and scary, because the man used it as a mask as well. Then I questioned the motif of the female who helps the protagonist. She was so readily willing to help the girl, but later on in the film, she wasn’t trying to save her, such as the scene in the woods, she was so apathetic and supposedly only came back for her bag.

 As they were escaping, the female with the rabbit mask and the man with the bat started to chase their van and attack it. It was obvious that they weren’t actually trying because the female with the rabbit mask had an electric knife and tried to use it on the metal van. Honestly, it would’ve been smarter to just throw it at a window than try to cut the door. Then the man with the bat was hitting the side of the van, when he could’ve hit the window and breaks it. 

This then leads onto my questioning the White Bear location. If it was such an important place, that held the signals for turning everyone into mindless viewers. Why was there absolutely no one there? The girls just cut the chain and drove right in, and they had a poor sketch of the place, yet knew where the signals were. Why did they place her in the back of a vehicle that had clear sides and people paid to throw wet sponges with red at her? 

These are just questions that I ask, because the creators of the episode could have taken any route that would’ve made us cringe a little. Maybe they did all this purposely to make us feel like something wasn’t right, but because there were so many loopholes; we were confused by it all and that was the point entirely.