This is worse than Medieval.This sounds like something one of the more depraved Roman Emperors might have come up with, given 21st century technology.
How does a normal, ordinary civilized human being in 2015 A.D begin to react to the a fantasy movie where the absolute worst nature of homo sapiens, from the 8th Century is implementing torture and inhumanity unimanginable and unknown for a thousand years?
I remember as a youth reading in disbelief at the creative hundred ways to implement animalistic behavior, and wondering... how would we, in the 20th and 21st century, respond to it TODAY?
The answer, astonishingly is clear : NOTHING!
History has demonstrated over and over that the solution of normal man has always been, "rather to die fighting, than on our knees bemoaning the immorality and unfairness of it all..."