tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post1168734165618076832..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: Living Life to the FullestDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-15678864247260698872014-10-24T08:20:18.784-07:002014-10-24T08:20:18.784-07:00But that's from our perspective. I recently wa...But that's from our perspective. I recently watched someone dying and I was present to that event but of course not to her death per se. We're not, nor can be, present to Tony's death — because he's a television character (which the screen going black reminds us of) and because he's not us. He's him.<br /><br />And, not to go on a tangent, what I find so compelling about that last scene is not that he's about the get whacked but that he's not, that he lives in this banality coupled with this anxiety all the time. That is his horror and the very premise of the show. He's a dad who has to clean the pool, argue with his wife, take his kids to college, even as he wages war.Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-60162265294339573812014-10-23T19:09:48.227-07:002014-10-23T19:09:48.227-07:00I'm thinking of the end of The Sopranos, I'...I'm thinking of the end of The Sopranos, I'm not sure one <i>can </i> be present for that. It seems to be lights out with an exclusion of the present. We aren't present for the whack, precisely because we don't see what happens next, nothing happens and so we aren't really even sure he got whacked in the first place. We're just assuming its a whack, we're just assuming its a death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com