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Black Mirror

Season 2 · Episode 2 — White Bear

Analysis by: Nicolás Galeano
Team: N. González · E. Lopez · T. Vega
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Intro

White Bear flips the victim narrative: we begin inside confusion and end on a stage. Phones replace empathy, and justice turns into a daily performance. This brief analysis follows the class format: plot, main theme, character descriptions, symbols, and message.

1) What happens in the episode?

Victoria wakes in a house with no memory of who she is. Outside, bystanders silently record her with their phones while masked hunters attempt to kill her. After a frantic day, she is brought onto a stage where the audience applauds: she is inside the White Bear Justice Park, condemned to relive confusion and fear every day as retribution for her role in the abduction of a child. Each night her memory is wiped; each morning the show restarts.

2) Main theme

Spectacle as justice. The episode exposes how punishment can be commercialized and consumed as entertainment, turning spectators into participants and eroding empathy under the glow of the camera.

3) Characters (describe them)

4) Symbols

5) Message

White Bear condemns a culture that performs justice for the camera. When punishment is packaged as a theme-park attraction, empathy disappears and society mistakes revenge for morality. The episode leaves us asking: if a sentence requires an audience to exist, who is it really for?

Analysis by Nicolás Galeano · Team: N. González · E. Lopez · T. Vega