The Soprano

Those who detect appreciative / complaisant grounds in the mafia movies are not exempt from certain reason grade; especially as for the great saga of The Godfather, although it is true that neither other qualifications, see One of ours or The price of the power, stand out for his criticism of the Mafia, however much his protagonists, of a form or other one, should finish punished.

In this sense, a series since The Soprano supposes, up to not excessive point, an adjustment of accounts. Although his only outstanding characteristic is not this, soon there is perceived this distancing that flees of the presentation of the principal personage, Tony Soprano, which hero at a height of Michael Corleone. Principally, because Tony Soprano is distant from being very much this thick figure, totémica, this boy for whom nobody waits and whom ends up by inheriting the mafia empire and dominating it with astuteness. The Godfather is, finally, an overcoming history, that of the family Corleone. The family Soprano takes the opposite road: that of the deconstruction.

The biggest merit of this series, therefore, takes root in his aptitude to undress to his personages' nourished cast. Starting, undoubtedly, by who one of the ringleaders heads them, Tony Soprano, of the mafia of New Jersey who soon inherits the position of maximum boss. Tony Soprano is an oppressed type, a guy to which the pressure can, which a good day begins collapsing (literally) in the most inopportune moments and which ends up by resorting (secretly, so it is seen badly in his business) to the services of a psychiatrist (woman, for more inri). It is appreciated immediately that little of laudatory is going to have his portrait. They do not leave Tony of him the dwarfs grow, good is through the fault of a quarrelsome uncle, an unbearable mother, a few curious children or a few subordinates who put the paw for awkwardness or for wanting to extract more sliced of the one that corresponds to them.

Considered the best series of all the times, it belongs to justice to admit that his personages' gallery fills a vacancy of honor: starting by proper Tony, but without desmerecer the secondary ones, whose leading role is dosed perfectly; if initially the mother emerges like enormous figure, capable of tormenting his son up to unsuspected limits, later they gather the witness the uncle Junior, the always anxious one for Christopher and the psychopath Richie climb. They all play an important role and they all are painted the portrait of haughty form.

Far from offering a pyrotechnic spectacle of shots and blood, The Soprano is rather the result led to the area of the fiction, of placing a camera in the life of a gangster of our days. A subject through that there lives a life radically different from that of the rest of mortal. What was turning out to be outlined in The Godfather (Michael closing to Kate in the knobs the door of his office, separating the familiar life of the "business") is here a fundamental lever of the action. Tony Soprano, and those who surround him, do not get up, record in the work, and return to his houses in the night. They have another type of problems: the FBI, clans rivals, informers who go away of the language, games of poker, the people to whom it is necessary to press the nuts or, even, to give passport … An existence that is salted of the margins of the legality and, therefore, of the normality. In the consultation of the psychiatrist, precisely, it is where this difference shows with major accuracy, where better we contemplate the collision of these two worlds.

With all this there must fight poor Tony Soprano interpreted by James Gandolfini in the role of his life. There him does not go to the rear Edie Falco, who demonstrated interpreting the wife of a gangster (confined in the limits of his house, cheated by a type male chauvinist and womanizer) of what was capable. The family is, certainly, the keystone of the plot; not in vain, the series is called The Soprano.

Although perhaps an affirmation as tremendous as the already reviewed one of “the best series of all the times” could turn out to be excessively dogmatic, few ones will be able to question the quality of his scripts and the role that it has played in the golden age of the television. The Soprano is a television with capital letters.

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