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Our favorite murderer
We may try to hate Tony, but our love for the careworn killer wins out. It's that moral perversity, in the age of Bush, that I'll miss most about "The Sopranos."
By Gary Kamiya [2007-06-09]

  • seriously

    alex cutter,

    I wasn't being flippant. I would say that such cuts are used when the director wants to give an impression of fragmented space and time. Maybe the most famous example of a character apparently "seeing himself" across the room would be at the end of "2001: A Space Odyssey," in the surreal bedroom with astronaut Bowman "seeing himself" rapidly age.

    It's a technique of disorientation, maybe meant to create a feeling of tension or unease. I honestly don't think Tony saw himself (I've double-checked on TiVo and there's no reverse cut BACK to Tony at the doorway.) It's just a quick flash forward, a telescoping of time/space, and it shook me up too.

    The entire sequence had my heart pounding in my chest.

    -- rollerboyz
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    Sunday, June 10, 2007 10:26 PM
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