Tuesday, June 12, 2007

finito

The ending of the last "Sopranos" reminded me of the ending of "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace - both were extremely unsatisfying at the time, but grew on me the more I thought about it.
There's something about a story that ends at an arbitrary point, without resolution. Intellectually, I'm all for it, especially with a story such as the "Sopranos", which was about the people involved and how they interacted and reacted to events and people around them, rather than being about the events themselves. Emotionally, however, when you watch or read a story that just ends, you want more.

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