White Bear

This week in class we talked about personal identity as well as watching a film called White Bear.  I the film, a women wakes up one day and has no idea who she is or where she is.  When trying to find help, she notices people recording her on their cell phones.  She then starts getting chased and attacked by people with guns and knives trying to kill her.  At the end of the movie, she finds herself in front of and audience and she learns who she really is.  Earlier in her life she and her fiance abducted a six year old girl, tortured her, raped her, and killed her.  While doing all this, the woman videotaped the whole thing on her cell phone.  Her punishment was to come to the "White Bear Justice Park" where they erased her memory and everyday she lives through the same events, ending with learning who she really is and being tortured.  The society she lives in is providing entertainment through her misery and punishment.  The question arose as to if this is a morally acceptable form of punishment for this awful crime.  I do believe that the two who committed the crime should be punished, and I would like to see them suffer also, but I'm not too sure if this is the appropriate way to go about it.  The death sentence or life in prison seems like too easy of a punishment for the severity of the crime, but I don't think erasing her memory if the right way to punish her.  I think she should have to live everyday knowing and remembering what she did as well as suffering in other ways.  The "White Bear Justice Park" just seems a little unrealistic in my opinion.