Did you root for Light?
I did. The whole way through.
There's always that opportunity.
I did. Bearing in mind of course that it's fiction. If he existed in real life, I wouldn't.
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MovieChat Forums > Death Note: Desu nôto (2007) Discussion > Did you root for Light?
No. I never liked him. From the moment he killed the FBI agent and his fiancee, I could tell he was not doing anything for the good of the humanity, but his own.
In the beginning there was nothing, and it exploded.
I agree, as soon as he killed the FBI agent, I decided I didn't like him. He's also really arrogant and aloof.
shareYes. He had an interesting mindset. However it was very childish just to punish criminals. It doesnt help that much to kill criminals.
shareSo he should be killing non criminals instead?
shareI think what he meant is that punishing all crime (which essentially was what he was doing), including robbery, and other lesser offenses with death is beyond overkill. Even the most draconian penal systems in existence today aren't that harsh.
shareWhat he was saying was that killing criminals by itself doesn't help much because it doesn't eliminate the root causes of crime. No matter how many criminals you kill, there will always be more, until the socioeconomic conditions that cause people to turn to crime are rectified.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of history.
-Mao Zedong
Yes, kill the people who have put us in this spiral of crime and poverty. The gap between rich and poor people has never been greater than it is today. You'd have to take out politicians and head of corporations that are abusing the system.
Imagine if you were to punish every CEO of financial institutions that encouraged the subprime (mortage) crisis of 2008. Corporations are running over citizens rights everyday, through lobbyist who put pressure on law makers.
You wouldnt need to kill as much people using the DEATHNOTE wth some killings of the VIP in todays society. A lot of people in power/money are terrible they just have a good PR team.
I rooted for Light as well. Yes, he did terrible things but sometimes it's fun to root for the bad guy and I loved how he always thought so many moves ahead.
And you bring up an interesting point about him only killing criminals. He was probably thinking small. Crime is just a sympton of societal problems in most cases. He could have used his power to eradicate poverty. Hell I would have used it to get rid of student loan debt lol.
Just criminals? He killed everyone that tried to catch him, and even threatened the POTUS in order to find Near. That's not "just criminals".
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I didn't mind light but I was cheering L though the whole thing.
shareI did until I saw the very last episode. He seemed to be really evil in that one.
shareLOL!
This perfectly sums up what's wrong with society.
Kills without remorse? probably good; god complex? probably good? anti-social personality? probably good; kills innocent people (gloats about it)? probably good; shows no affection? probably good; manipulates friends and family? probably good; shortens father's lifespan by one half, for selfish reasons? probably good; takes over the world with supervillain plot? probably good; becomes the greatest mass murderer in history? probably good - laughs maniacally... confirmed evil.
He was pathetic, it's strange to root for someone so self-absorbed. I've been a fan of some fictional lunatics in my time, but he was such a snob, rooting for him is like being a brown-noser. Every person who says they wanted to see him win, I picture Misa in their place. Infatuated with this guy who doesn't respect them.
This is how people end up drinking Jim Jones kool aid.
The people who rooted for Light must be the same people who rooted for Amy Dunne in David Fincher's Gone Girl. (Spoilers for anyone who has not seen the film and would want to) Both characters are extremely self-absorbed and selfish, both are very smart, and both appear to have the same degree of narcissistic personality disorder.
Kudos for Fincher and the film's production team who managed to have a script where the bad guy wins approved within the Hollywood system btw, that's an extreme rarity. I did not root for Anne Dunne but I loved the film. It also made $168 million domestic and $200 million foreign out of a $60 million budget, so the "films where the bad guy wins are commercial failures" Hollywood convention is a fallacy, at least for some cases.
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No. I don't mind visionary and intelligent villains but not Light.
The lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of sheep.