Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
This is a college that episode in the first quarter of inside Appeared, I think it is the best commentary for this episode. I have been watching The Sopranos (The Sopranos) for the past two days and I can say that I like it very much.
I think it’s different from traditional gangster movies. In addition to showing the Italian gang ecology in New Jersey, the most interesting thing about the Sopranos is that Tony Sopranos struggles between the family life and the secret gang life. It should not be appropriate to say that he is struggling, because he has always appeared as a strong man. But the loyalty and family of the gangsters seemed to be very happy in the United States in the 1990s. For Tony, the most threatening ones are probably not those rivals in business, but his mother, wife and two children. As a result, this gangster who is on his own will secretly go to see the psychologist to relieve his distress-he still dare not let his subordinates find out. The image of this traditional tough guy is particularly plump because of this. This man is domineering, rough, informal, and incompatible with the taste of the middle class. But because of this, it makes him particularly attractive. Look at the neighbors living around Tony. Doctors, lawyers, and psychologists are all high-income classes in the United States. The surface is glamorous, but in fact it is no different from the average person. In private, those dignified faces are not what people see.
I think this TV series is against the elite consciousness and the middle-class values of the mean. People in the Soprano family have no culture, they are typical Street Smart cultural representatives. What they pursue in life is "responsibility" except money and women. This sounds funny, these murderous gangs are actually very loyal, moral, and generational. They don't pursue the meaning of life. In the second season, Tony's son asked him what he was living for, but he couldn't say it, because to him, living is meaning, and there is no need for excuses or reasons. In this regard, it is of the same origin as Johnnie To's Hong Kong gangster movies. This kind of sentiment derived from the Brotherhood/family gang has become a rarer and more cherished memory in the increasingly popular individualistic society in modern times.
The core of the series is Tony's conflict between his two worlds, if it is a struggle. The creator David Chase also mentioned this in the interview. The outside world is the secret life of work and gangs, and the inside world is trivial, and the family life is never peaceful. The two worlds never gave Tony a trace of peace. Of course, it also led to a splendid scene.
Another interesting thing is that all the actors in this film are very ugly. It's a bit unfair to say that, these actors can't be said to be "bright" at least. Don't say that the big bosses of the gangsters are stunned (according to wikipedia, many of the actors inside are really mixed outside), and the one who shines is Tony's old mother Olivia. This role is really great. Hard teeth to the extreme, completely no mercy. Staring at people with big fish-eye eyes can see you all hairy. Nancy Marchand, the actor, shined so brilliantly in the last scene of her life. Play a hard-hearted and tangled mother into the woods.
There are so many places where this drama shines, and it's not clear at all in an article. Apply "A Reminder That Not All Modern TV is Poor" said by a user on IMDB
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