Friday, November 27, 2015

Justice or Hypocrisy?


While the entire "White Bear" film was mentally unsettling, I think what stood out the most for me was the fact that, by visiting the "Justice Park" and playing the role of the spectators, the people became the woman they're supposed to be punishing. The woman is being punished through this justice park for filming her fiance torturing and killing a little girl. The punishment is supposed to be fair and just because they're only doing to her what she did to the girl. Whether it is actually just or fair aside, the visitors really got to me because they are actively participating in the torture of the woman. Sure, they aren't actually physically harming her as the main actors are, but the fact that they stand by and take pictures instead of helping the woman is very obviously emotionally distressing to her. Additionally, they can be seen laughing and enjoying their actions behind the scenes, such as when they're shown taking selfies with the actors after the man in the convenience store "dies." In this, they aren't any better off than the woman they are torturing, especially since the woman has no idea that she even committed a crime until the end of the session. The park also normalizes the crime that the woman committed to its visitors by having them act out the same role, and as I mentioned, they can be seen laughing and celebrating doing so. They want to see this woman punished for her crime so badly, but they never stop to think about the fact that committing the same act - even if it is in the name of some twisted version of "justice" - makes them no more morally correct than her.

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