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A few months ago my brother kinda ‘forced’ me into watching a movie that he was watching and was impressed - which is what he normally does. He would talk and talk and talk non-stop beside me about something that he was so into, and that time around it was this movie, Death Note. I wasn’t very interested in it but DARL was. So we watched it, and to my surprise, I kinda like the movie.

The story of Death Note is based on a supernatural action-mystery manga, about Light Yagami, a brilliant student, who finds the Death Note - a notebook - dropped by the death god, name Ryuk. Very soon Light discovers that writing any human name in the notebook will have the human dies precisely the way he describes in the notebook.

Light vows himself to use the power of the Death Note to make the world a better place. But soon when criminals begin to die mysteriously around the world, the authorities send the legendary detective ‘L’ to investigate. It doesn’t take long for ‘L’ to suspect Light’s involvement in the mysterious series of murder and this forces Light to reevaluate his initial intention, while trying to cover himself up. And the ‘witty war’ begins…

Me and DARL did have some discussions on the movie after watching it. Personally I wouldn’t want the power to decide who would die and how. I just don’t think I have the right to decide on this. At this stage of my life, I think I would love to have unlimited energy and time to do more things that I wanna do. Greedy me.

Anyway, I wasn’t aware that this movie wasn’t shown in some countries until today. To those who haven’t watched, I must say that this is really worth watching. And to those from the U.S., here is a chance to watch DeathNote in theater on either 20 or 21 May! All you need to do is to follow the link and enter your zip code to purchase in advance. Go watch. And I’m sure you’ll look forward to watch the following episodes.

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