Friday, August 28, 2015
The Cycle of Punishment and Torture
In the film White Bear there was a justification to the actions that the persecutors where doing, or so they thought. In the United States we see jail or prison as a punishment where the person who was accused of the crime will learn their lesson and not repeat it again. What we should do is get them help so that they can no repeat the same mistake again. The justice system in the white bear movie was very extreme, but like Matt an Gabby said in class, sometimes you need it to be "in your face" for you to realize what is going on. From my perspective of seeing this movie twice now, I have a had time sympathizing with the woman who is being punished. Instinctively the human body will try to survive for as long as it can, and her screaming and panicking makes me feel like she should be punished or die. Even though she was not the one who burned the little girl like her fiance, she is still guilty for not doing anything to stop it. I do not know if punishment this extreme should be taken thought. The objective of punishment is for someone to learn their lesson. There is no lesson that is taught in White Bear, it is pure torture. I do not wish torture on any person, but sometimes torture is good for the betterment of the whole. If we find a member of a terror group and they have information about a bomb that could be used to cause more damage on other people, torture might be the method to extract this information. But the use of torture to get nothing in return is pure cruelty. There is no good that came out of this movie at all. From the beginning the little girl is killed and the lady is tortured. This is a disturbing video for me because there is no closure. It is an endless cycle of hate and torture that has been turned into a business.
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You make an interest point about the lack of closure. I attempted to justify the film by comparing it to an already bad system - ours, rather than taking it at face value. You are correct; the torture is cyclical and endless: though comparable to our system, not morally okay.
ReplyDeleteIf we are discussing film for film's sake, the plot twist and cyclical effect is awesome. It taunts us and begs many unsolvable questions!
Upon reading your opinion, I immediately picked up on what you intended to convey, and I better understood my own opinion. Just as you stated in the last sentence, it's an endless cycle of hate and torture, turned into business. But my thoughts also transcend that, I believe it is also a way for society to do what they already wished to do deep down, but be justified while doing it. They made it a business and turned it into entertainment, but simply to feed that evil that we all have within, the same one that lusts for joy at the expense of another's life or happiness.
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