#death note 2017

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sometimes i think about netflix adaptation of death note, i know that many people hate it but actually for me it wasn’t a disappointment. first time i saw it in 2019 ig i dont remember tbh and back then i didnt get deep into it and forgot abt it in like a week . then week ago we with my sister were painting some painting and were turning random films on background . i have been begging her to watch death note anime for years literally and then i remembered that we could watch a film.

sooo i rewatched it and actually it isn’t bad , if we watch on it from the perspective of it as an independent film . but in comparison with anime of course its mega unaccurate and even characters natures were far away from those in anime.

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but the story is actually cool, yeah ngl its not the best but i really love this movie, especially the plot twist at the end. yeah i wish the cast was better but its ok until the movie is good . My personal favorite is light there bc he doesn’t act like he would in anime, he is choosing the lesser of two evils and actually care about the world where he unlike in anime doesn’t want to proclaim himself a new god (or not, i wasn’t watching it with full attention cuz i was painting okay) im gonna rewatch it and then i will write my full opinion about this movie

to my understanding, death note doesn’t really care about high flying ideals like justice and criminal punishment and the law. it’s actually about watching a weird freak murderer do his weird freak murders. I know this sounds like a very “I don’t do media analysis take” but I’m so serious when I say death note is very clear when it says light yagami is delusional and wrong, the interesting thing is watching him justify his delusions and get away with it.

arguably it’s more of a statement on how much most people want something to believe in, or a treatise on the just-world fallacy, or how power corrupts. you can’t really chart light’s journey from stopping bullies to becoming the biggest bully when the original point is that he was always, always, the biggest bully.

like that’s why he has to be a troubled kid in 2015 and 2017. the adaptations try to portray light as punching up, when originally this guy is the top honor student in Japan, solidly middle class, well liked and popular, tennis champion, model son and older brother, societally advantaged and seemingly perfect in every way. he’s not a hero of the disadvantaged, and the reason I like the musical so much is because it makes that as absurdly clear as it was in the original—especially when Ryuk laughs at him in “Kira:”

First of all why the fuck is it set in seattle. If it HAD to be a usamerican city WHY seattle??? Nothing is ever set here…. nyc would’ve made more sense…. I digress

I was pleasantly surprised that most of the time it Did actually look like Seattle. Disregarding the shots that were literal seattle skyline of course. NSHS is not real but that’s fine & to be expected.

Biggest thing: I WISH the pier with the wheel on it was as cool in real life as it is in the movie. lol. You go there for the wheel and that’s it. And there isn’t a shore to wash up on like light did….

(Also wtf is the “northwest wheel.” I do not understand why it couldn’t have been called by its actual name (seattle great wheel. Seattle wheel or great wheel would’ve been completely fine colloquially. Bro even just The Wheel.))

Not ONE shot of the ferry despite the terminal being right next to the wheel. Criminal. Can we even call this seattle. Lets all remember grays anatomy

And small thing but there is pretty much NEVER sudden heavy downpour here like there was in the beginning when ryuk dropped the death note.

It WAS really funny to hear L say, “Kira is in seattle.”