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The Sopranos: Made in America (2007)
Have to let it sink in.
Like many viewers, I was a bit disappointed at the final scene being so abrupt and ambiguous, but I realized later how absolutely genius the ending actually was. The suspicious looking Italian fellow that the camera was fixating on, when he went into the restroom, it was reminiscent of the scene in Godfather 1 when Michael goes into the bathroom during the sit-down with Solozzo and emerges with a pistol. And it was brought to my attention that Bobby and Tony had a conversation about death earlier in the season and Bobby mentioned something about how he thought that one probably won't know if he/she get killed. That the music would just stop, the camera would stop rolling (metaphorically speaking). I don't think there can be any doubt. Tony Soprano is dead. And I realize there are people out there that wine about how the fate of Tony wasn't handed to you, but such people are not true fans. Those who are devoted followers would realize that nothing in the show is handed to you on a silver platter, that many times you would have to search for your own meaning in things. In that respect, the ending kept true to the themes of this brilliant television series.
The Departed (2006)
Brilliant and Brutal
This movie is one of my favorite Scorsese films. Top 3, definitely. The violence is brutal as well as the language, the characters are intriguing and flawed (not a single "good guy" exists in the movie), the humor is deliciously dark, and the directing, as always, is simply phenomenal. But what I like even more than the directing is how multi-layered the film is. You'll have to see it twice to even begin to take everything in. There are simple lines of dialog that are vital pieces of information. That's what I love most. The movie contains so many different dimensions, that it simply blows away other mono-layered films. Scorsese doesn't hand feed you everything. You have to make the connections yourself, and that's why I think the majority of the youth either will not understand it or they won't be able to appreciate the brilliance and depth of the film because their standards have been trashed due to the commercial crap films Hollywood is spitting out drastically fast. Nevertheless, this film is amazingly good and don't let any schmuck convince you otherwise.