death note
Monday, February 18, 2008 (11:15 AM)
when i first caught the movie, i thought it was marvellous. amazingly intelligent. upon watching the anime, i am still as impressed if not more. with the kind of details in the anime, it's so intelligent, it's pretty sick. but a great story like this still has its flaws.
episode 28 at 10:15 where the rules of the death note is stated...
the names you see with the eye power of a god of death are the names needed to kill that person. you will be able to see the names even if tha[t] person isn't registered in the family registration.
have you identified the flaw yet? even without any knowledge of death note, one may possibly be able to see this flaw.
what is it that attributes the name to a person? what makes a name more "real" than another? aren't names just arbitrary symbols that we use to identify someone? if we get even more philosophical, we may even argue that the face is not part of a person but that'll be the work of a cynic, which i am not. at the very least, when a person is born, the looks and body comes with it to the world. not the name.
to be more clear, what makes the "cat" sound we produce relate to the image of this? is there any inherent quality that it must be tied to this word? so what is it that determines a name? if a person isn't registered, it means that the name can be changed anytime, right? no? why not? afterall, there's no basis in what ties the person to the name. likewise, what makes a name "fake" if it isn't based upon the registered name? what power do the parents have to attribute that name? what power does the law have to approve that change?
trust me. philosophy fucks...