The Sopranos and the Closure-Junkies
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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The debate raging over the ending of The Sopranos is not really about whether this or that specific guy was the killer, not even whether or not Tony was whacked. It's about something more fundamental - must an ending wrap everything up in a neat way, or can it leave us up in the air or not knowing what's going to happen? The debate, then, is really between the closure-junkies, which all of us are, most of the time, and those of us who can tolerate and even see the beauty in an ending that does not give us definitive answers...
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The debate raging over the ending of The Sopranos is not really about whether this or that specific guy was the killer, not even whether or not Tony was whacked. It's about something more fundamental - must an ending wrap everything up in a neat way, or can it leave us up in the air or not knowing what's going to happen? The debate, then, is really between the closure-junkies, which all of us are, most of the time, and those of us who can tolerate and even see the beauty in an ending that does not give us definitive answers...
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