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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
well after viewing it yet again, and pondering the end of the Sopranos I understad it now.
It is WE, the audience, who got whacked.
After having followed the lives of tomny soprano and his two families, we were treated to 10 amazing tension building minutes, showing us how Tony Soprano REALLY lives, jumping at every sound, anyone can be an enemy, anyone could be a cop, constant paranoia, to thepoint where it feels like you are having an attack of some kind, and just as it builds and builds *CUT TO BLACK*
no sound, no light. It was not Tony who got it. It was the audience. We all got whacked. It came out of nowhere and with no warning and it was all just black.
excellent!
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here's the thing, too: What's the point of view of the camera? It's OUR point of view. WE see what the camera sees. So when WE get whacked, camera goes dead (or vice versa?).
The point of view isn't Tony's. The point of view is omniscient, changing from character to character, scene to scene. It's the viewer's point of view through the camera. That to me is the most compelling evidence supporting this idea.
Plus, Tony's expression--he's not surprised or anything. If he'd looked up to see a gun in his face, there'd have been at least a flicker of shock. There's nothing. Just dead pan, like, yeah, he's seen us before. The look of shock would come a moment later, after we're whacked, after the moment the trigger is pulled.