Oct 30, 2010

Death Note

What would you do if one day... an ordinary day, during which, most probably, nothing unusual would happen, the unusual is becoming reality? I'm not talking about any event that imagination can fill up with fantastic and exaggerated features due to the desire of "spicing"a bit the usual... I'm not talking about such false and pardonable failure; I'm talking about the real deal. Something that, like any real deal, appears as a common one. It doesn't draw one's attention the first time because of that, and none the less, at a closer look, because one cannot conceive the purpose for its existence. If this very purpose is in fact, profound and universal one, its credibility diminishes considerably. The object is plain notebook, its purpose is dangerous, fascinating, catchy... Except for the user's instructions, numerous, but clear and simple, the first one is enough to support the previous statement: any person whose name is written in the notebook having this person's image in one's mind, shall die.. From this moment on this specific "rule"stands for the plot of a story whit infinite climaxes in a deployment which hurries up towards an explanation-end, moral and accurate. If the one who finds it is, on account, a highschool student, incredibly bright, with a strong sense of justice and authentic features of megalomania, suffering from a God complex, everything becomes, all of a sudden, even more interesting. What would someone like him do with such power? What would anyone do? How would a common person react in this kind of situation? How would the authorities deal whit it? To cut the story short, what would be the general reaction face to the possibility of creating a new world in which evil would be abolished; a world in which God is fair and good and right, but in a more fast, pragmatic, obviously involved way. Do I have the right of becoming God if my intentions are peaceful, but the instrument I use is crime? Do I have the right to kill, to punish, to throw stones at people? Subjective selection, indisputably flattering... One can only find the answers to all these questions in one of the few Anime which has made me want to see more of them - Death Note. I can hardly wait to watch the movie as well. Because there is a movie as well... fortunately. At least I hope so... in the same way I've hoped for another end. It seems that God is not, by all means, good.

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