Meet Liliana, this is her home away from her weekend job. She is a champion fight dog. She has successfully defeated 5 other dogs over the course of 7 months, this is considered very successful. Her home is safely tucked away from curious eyes, she has no way to tell the torments of her mind or how her training has made her susceptible to view small humans as nothing but a target for her practice. Through the instigation of her owner, she has harmed a small child.
Does this make her a bad dog?
In my opinion, the real question is:
Is she truly a bad dog or does she have a bad owner? Is her environment conducive to this behaviour?
Likewise, after watching White Bear by Black Mirror Productions, it left me with demented images of human pleasure and enjoyment at the expense of another, is the protagonist any different from this dog? One can argue, she was fully capable of intervening in the death of the child. However we do not know the circumstances of her "engagement" with the perpetrator. Was she coerced to behave in the manner she did?
To analyze the movie as it was presented: we were introduced to the protagonist first scene. A young girl/woman sitting in her apartment who looks like she has overdosed and is completely delirious, maybe psychotic. However, as the movie progresses, you want to cheer for her, she is the underdog. For unknown reasons, at the time, people are trying to kill her and make it a sport with spectators. These sick monsters are incubating the future generations of monsters by encouraging active participation vaguely similar to The Hunger Games.
Before we proceed... ( I will continue later on)
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