White Bear seemed to end
with quite a few unanswered questions.
In the beginning we are in
fear for the main character as she runs for her life and tries to figure out
who she is so you feel bad for her because you do not think that she has done
anything to deserve this. But at the end, you find out that she has done wrong
and that this is her form of punishment. This makes the viewers question what
they believe to be right and wrong and if this is truly justice.
Towards the very end of the
movie you see the person that is in charge of this whole scheme, in the house
that the movie starts out in and he is marking a day off of the calendar with
an x. Almost all of the days on the calendar are marked off meaning that the
month is almost over. Seeing this, of course, brings about some questions like,
why have they continued to do this for so long? They wipe her memory after
every time so she can not even remember doing it or going through any of the
torture. She realizes at the end of her experience that she has committed a
horrible crime and it is obvious she feels remorseful… until they erase her
memory again.
The amount of times they do
this does not affect her because she has no memory of anything happening. So
why are they constantly doing it? She does not realize how many times she has
gone through this. Brutally punishing her everyday for however long they plan
to, serves no purpose to her anymore and it all becomes solely for the
satisfaction of the people. But why would this whole community want to partake in such a crazy thing? It did not directly affect them. The society that she lives in believes that they
have reason to do this to her because she did one bad thing, yet they believe
it must be inflicted over and over. How much is enough? When will the people
that and agree that it is a good idea and are partaking in this, get bored with
constantly torturing someone? One would think that if this is happening to this
individual that there would be reasons to torment and “punish” other people
that have done wrong. Unless this type of “justice” has gone on for so long
that this was the last crime committed and people don’t commit crimes
in this society anymore. It makes me wonder if anyone could ever do anything so bad that our society today would ever think of doing something like this.
You know its almost like they are eternally criminalizing her by erasing her memory and not letting her keep those remorseful feelings. Because yes she does feel remorseful at the end, but if they plan to continue with their fun, they can't let her keep even a fragment of salvation- they take it all.
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