A Truly Heart Stopping Comparison
If given the chance to decide who lives and who dies, would you be able to take another’s life? In the manga, Death Note, Light Yagami is given the power to kill through the form of the Death Note notebook given to him by Ryuk the Shinigami; with the notebook, he seeks to get rid of the rotten in the world and he is willing to go to any length to do so, while Light Turner in the film is much more hesitant to deal out such punishment and has to be convinced on many occasions, and has his limits. The film adaptation of the manga seems to have more loose essence of the source material. The reasons for this lies in the portrayal of Light, justice and Ryuk in the film.