LIE

Hullo...

This is my third entry on my NEW blog (ehem2...) and the second time I discuss about things that linger in my mind after I watched movie or drama series. This time, it is the Japanese drama series, Liar Game. From the title, I am sure you can guess what the drama is about. It is about a game which requires the participants to lie in order to win. A weird and scary game but yet it was interesting. Their goal is to find an ultimate Liar King.

Ironically, the main character is Kanzaki Nao, a young girl which is too honest for her own good. She ends up participating in the game. Panicking, she asked help from Akiyama Shin’ichi, an ex-con and a swindler to help her. What I am deeply interested is Akiyama character. He was a good child and a bright university student until a tragedy struck him. His mother was conned by a multi-level marketing organization.

Desperately, she committed suicide so that Akiyama will get the money from her life insurance. From that moment, Akiyama held grudge and becomes a swindler in order to bring down the organization which cause the death of his mother. As a psychology student, he had an advantage to deceive people as he studied about human’s behaviour. He can read and guess what’s in their mind and manipulate it. TO BE ABLE TO LIE IS A TALENT. I have to agree with this statement as lying is not easy and it requires a high level of thinking

Then, there is Yokoya, a man with the aura of a ruler. He claimed to be psychic but it turns out to be a bluff. He was the manager of the organization which tricked Akiyama’s mother. He enjoyed deceiving people and he never regret for what he did. He held grudge toward Akiyama and Nao after Nao tricked him.

In the end, the story will reveal who is the creator of this scary game. And surely Kanzaki Nao has something to do with the existence of this game.

In this story, we can see that the world is full of corruption and how selfish and ugly people can be when it involved money. Does money really important? Is this the kind of world that we want to live in? Where is the sense of humanity?