Death Note

Death Note Trailer








Recently, I watched the movie “Death Note” from TV. It already has been released and appeared on the movie channels for a while. I have seen that movie in the theater because at that this movie was so popular. After quite a time, I already forgot the plot of the movie, so I watched it again. Still, it’s as attractive as before and also made me think of some issues.

Actually, this movie is adapted from comic books and they share the same name “Death Note”. At first, I was attracted by the story of the comic. It’s said that every Death has a death note that Death can use to kill people. One day, one Death drops its death notebook to the world purposely and just for fun. One senior high school student finds it and decides to use the notebook to make a new world. It’s said that once a man’s name is put on the notebook and then he will die.

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Additionally, the writer can decide how and when the man dies, including the situation when he is dying. The student who gets the notebook is very smart and he wants to help the poor and rule the world with justice. Then he hacks into the website of National Police Agency and find out a lot of prisoners who are already sentenced death penalties are still alive. So he decides to write these people’s names on the notebook and kill them. He also people according to the reports from the news, and mostly those bad guys that the police haven’t arrest yet. By doing so, the criminal rates becomes lower and lower. People call the secret guy “killer” and some people even think “killer” is god. However, he is not a real god so he doesn’t have the rights to decide whether a man should die or not. Since that, some secret organizations send smart people to help find out who the killer is. So, the competition between killer and “L”, who is the chairman of the secret organization starts.





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The story of this movie actually is related to some popular issue today, such as “Should we abolish the death penalty or not?” Also, the main character in the movie makes me consider something. To be honest, I was supportive to the main character’s thoughts because I thought he was smart and had his own dream toward the world. I thought maybe the world could really become better by following what he wanted to do. However, after I watched the latter part of the movie, I started to think and wonder if this man is crazy or not. It’s said that “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” I thought the words are so fit the man. Once he had the power to control and decide people’s lives, hethought himself was the best and the most important one that no one else could deny him. However, it’s not right. So until the end of the movie, I thought he was totally crazy about the power of controlling and already missed himself. It’s so pathetic.



I like this movie so much because of its brand new story and just to see these two smart guys compete with each other makes me feel so excited. Also, it’s a movie that can make you think a lot after watching it. So, I love this one so much!