"The Sopranos" represents in a certain sense the junction between series and auteur films on crime, but this is only one aspect of the matter. The truth is that Tony Soprano represents an antihero that allows his creators to express thoughts, jokes, actions otherwise inaccessible to a "good" character and this allows to reflect without filters what we are in everyday life, when we are angry, when we are disappointed, when we are politically incorrect. This is fantastic because for the first time, I believe, a mobster transcends his being a mobster to become the epitome of the common man, and with common man I mean all of us, without filters, without half measures. Sure, we generally don't kill, we don't break the law, but who cares? This is a superstructure, what stands out in this character is the deep inadequacy to the world, and don't we often feel inadequate ourselves?
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"The Sopranos" represents in a certain sense the junction between series and auteur films on crime, but this is only one aspect of the matter. The truth is that Tony Soprano represents an antihero that allows his creators to express thoughts, jokes, actions otherwise inaccessible to a "good" character and this allows to reflect without filters what we are in everyday life, when we are angry, when we are disappointed, when we are politically incorrect. This is fantastic because for the first time, I believe, a mobster transcends his being a mobster to become the epitome of the common man, and with common man I mean all of us, without filters, without half measures. Sure, we generally don't kill, we don't break the law, but who cares? This is a superstructure, what stands out in this character is the deep inadequacy to the world, and don't we often feel inadequate ourselves?