Review of Death Note (2017) by David Ehrlich for Indiewire — 20 Aug 2017
The only reason to take such a uniquely Japanese story and transplant it to Seattle is to explore how its thorny moral questions might inspire different answers in an American context, so for this retread to all but reduce America to its whiteness indicates an absence of context more than anything else.
It’s the most glaring symptom of a film that utterly fails to investigate its premise.
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This review of Death Note (2017) was written by David Ehrlich and published by Indiewire on 20 Aug 2017.
Death Note has generally received negative reviews.
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