The Will to Survive - Sopranos' Style
ATTENTION: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS ABOUT THE ''SOPRANOS''' SEASON PREMIERE SUNDAY NIGHT! STAY AWAY IF YOU MISSED IT!
Man, was that something Sunday night or what? The "Sopranos'' season opener was just incredible. But two scenes stand out for me, each one of which seemed to stretch on for hours.
How long did we watch the despairing mob guy with no way out twitch and flail when he hung himself? The scene could have ended with the snap of his neck, but it didn't. The camera stayed on him for a long time from some middle distance, and we were transfixed, frozen, unable to cross the room and give him a hand.
And Tony, gut-shot, crawling, crawling to a phone, seemed to go on forever. Once again, the scene could have gone to black after the fateful shot. But no ...
Life is precious, those scenes seemed to say, even for those who value others' lives so little.
Even in despair, even in ending one's own life, we struggle to come back. Even as the blood leaves us, and things get black around the edges, we want to hang on and be safe.
But if there is one lesson the "Sopranos'' teach us all, it is this: Nobody ever learns from the past so we pay for our sins over and over again, with the possibility of true redemption requiring a miracle.
Man, was that something Sunday night or what? The "Sopranos'' season opener was just incredible. But two scenes stand out for me, each one of which seemed to stretch on for hours.
How long did we watch the despairing mob guy with no way out twitch and flail when he hung himself? The scene could have ended with the snap of his neck, but it didn't. The camera stayed on him for a long time from some middle distance, and we were transfixed, frozen, unable to cross the room and give him a hand.
And Tony, gut-shot, crawling, crawling to a phone, seemed to go on forever. Once again, the scene could have gone to black after the fateful shot. But no ...
Life is precious, those scenes seemed to say, even for those who value others' lives so little.
Even in despair, even in ending one's own life, we struggle to come back. Even as the blood leaves us, and things get black around the edges, we want to hang on and be safe.
But if there is one lesson the "Sopranos'' teach us all, it is this: Nobody ever learns from the past so we pay for our sins over and over again, with the possibility of true redemption requiring a miracle.
posted by Michael Riley at 1:31 PM
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