Death Note Page #2

Synopsis: Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by the alias L.
Director(s): Adam Wingard
Production: Vertigo Entertainment
 
IMDB:
4.6
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
41%
TV-MA
Year:
2017
101 min
4,095 Views


that you actually...

I mean, you're a cop.

How do you sleep at night

knowing you watched while a guy

like Antony Skomal walked away?

You think I just watched?

If I was a cop

and some guy ran over my wife,

I'd be pretty pissed off

if his dad paid his way out of jail.

He killed my mom,

he nearly beat his girlfriend to death,

and you just sit there

saying the same bullshit

-about how people better trust your aim--

-I'm gonna assume you're still raw

by what you saw today at school,

and that's keeping you

from thinking before you speak.

I suggest you stop talking.

[thunder rumbles]

"Rule 64:
Each page of the note

contains the power of the whole note."

"Rule 95:

Anyone may write names in the note,

but only the keeper can possess it

for more than seven days." Jesus!

How many rules does it take to...

"Don't trust Ryuk.

He is not your pet.

He is not your friend."

-[thunder rumbles]

-[train whistle blows]

[rattling]

[chewing]

-[Ryuk] Hey, kid.

-Ah!

It's pronounced Ree-yook.

Ryuk.

Oh. Hi.

Sorry for the mispronunciation.

Ryuk, what exactly can I do

with thisDeath Note?

What exactly did you have in mind?

Well, it says that I can specify

the manner of death.

If I can choose how they die, does that

mean I can actually control them?

Every human spends the last moments

of his life in the shadow of a death god.

If we so desire,

we can influence those moments.

There are, of course, limitations.

"Rule 20:

A subject can be influenced for no more

than two days leading up to his death."

Two days? Your fingers are huge.

"Rule 28:
Each death

must be physically possible,"

so no shark attacks

while someone's on the toilet.

[laughs]

As much as I love that idea.

Uh, where did it come from?

[sighs] The history of the note

is as long as history itself.

But who gave it to me?

I mean, did you give it to me?

The last keeper of the note passed away.

It fell to me to find a new one.

-What if I didn't want it?

-You may pass it on.

Or better yet, I will.

-How would you do that?

-I told you!

When the note is separated

from the keeper for seven days,

I find a new one.

Who wrote those warnings about you

in the margins?

Oh, is that what we're gonna do

with the note, Light? Rules and warnings?

[thunder rumbles]

The name and the face

is all you have to have.

[Ryuk's laugh echoes]

[gagging]

[Ryuk cackling]

[cell phone ringing]

[cell phone beeps]

[Light's father] Turner.

Yeah, no, it's fine. What's going on?

Say that again.

You gotta be kidding me.

[laughs]

All right, yeah. I'll see you in a bit.

All right.

-[knock on door]

-Hey.

[Light] Hey, uh, one second.

Come in.

Hey, what you up to?

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