Comments on: A Bunch of Words That Are All About the Sopranos Finale http://host94.hrwebservices.net/~drockwo/blog/2007/05/26/a-bunch-of-words-that-are-all-about-the-sopranos-finale/ Highbrow flix, low brow ramblin's Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:18:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: mike rot http://host94.hrwebservices.net/~drockwo/blog/2007/05/26/a-bunch-of-words-that-are-all-about-the-sopranos-finale/#comment-84 mike rot Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:05:19 +0000 http://host94.hrwebservices.net/~drockwo/blog/2007/05/26/a-bunch-of-words-that-are-all-about-the-sopranos-finale/#comment-84 I think the ending is entirely significant... I cannot remember if I came up with this interpretation or if someone else did... its been half a year now... but the clue to everything is that when Tony enters the restaurant he looks over and sees himself sitting down. from that point on we are in Tony's mind, he is imagining a scenario perhaps instigated by the Rockwell appearance of the restaurant. In it he makes a final significant conclusion about what has been the entire arc of the show since the beginning: to be a mobster or be a family man. If you notice the family members that talk to him in this scene are all a bit off, there is an ease to their communication that is rarely occuring in the regular part of the show, this is an idealized get together. occassionaly the problems of reality keep intervening in Tony's fantasy, AJ brings up something, and of course there is the man at the bar... when the song 'Don't Stop Believing' comes on (not accidental) we are still waiting for the daughter to arrive (why am I forgetting her name?) anyways... the shit goes down when she enters the restaurant... and if you remember the last scene Tony had with her she was angry about how Italians are portrayed and considered Tony a victim, and he looked a bit upset about her thinking this... Tony had been able to live his duplicitous life and keep up the fantasy of being a family man, but I think, the realization of the daughter adopting his delusion, that popped the bubble, and does when she enters the fantasy. The way I see it is that the fantasy signifies Tony's ultimate decision, be a family man or continue the downward spiral... and the song, the realization of his delusion brought about by his daughter... all in one black-out a conviction is made, and from that point on it is decadence, destruction, the end of it all. I like to believe that ending, it makes sense to me... but I also understand Bob Harris's death ceremony interpretation as well. I think the ending is entirely significant… I cannot remember if I came up with this interpretation or if someone else did… its been half a year now… but the clue to everything is that when Tony enters the restaurant he looks over and sees himself sitting down. from that point on we are in Tony’s mind, he is imagining a scenario perhaps instigated by the Rockwell appearance of the restaurant. In it he makes a final significant conclusion about what has been the entire arc of the show since the beginning: to be a mobster or be a family man. If you notice the family members that talk to him in this scene are all a bit off, there is an ease to their communication that is rarely occuring in the regular part of the show, this is an idealized get together.

occassionaly the problems of reality keep intervening in Tony’s fantasy, AJ brings up something, and of course there is the man at the bar… when the song ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ comes on (not accidental) we are still waiting for the daughter to arrive (why am I forgetting her name?) anyways… the shit goes down when she enters the restaurant… and if you remember the last scene Tony had with her she was angry about how Italians are portrayed and considered Tony a victim, and he looked a bit upset about her thinking this… Tony had been able to live his duplicitous life and keep up the fantasy of being a family man, but I think, the realization of the daughter adopting his delusion, that popped the bubble, and does when she enters the fantasy. The way I see it is that the fantasy signifies Tony’s ultimate decision, be a family man or continue the downward spiral… and the song, the realization of his delusion brought about by his daughter… all in one black-out a conviction is made, and from that point on it is decadence, destruction, the end of it all.

I like to believe that ending, it makes sense to me… but I also understand Bob Harris’s death ceremony interpretation as well.

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