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June 11, 2007
Don't Stop -: About a cut
YOU KNOW SOMEONE'S BEEN THINKING when they manage to come up with a simple cut that surpasses anything you could do with the image itself, and with the inspired final scene of "The Sopranos," is David Chase really the first person use Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" to create a parallel to Samuel Beckett's novel, "The Unnameable"? 
("Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.") Heady stuff. I don't get the television critics who are wailing this morning, like Mary McNamara in the L.A. Times and Charlie McCollum of the Mercury News. At least Heather Havrilesky, as you'd expect, has her shit together, in the best read I've seen, over at Salon. "Just like the rest of us. Going to hell in a red leather booth, with Journey playing in the background." Not quite "And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," but fine nonetheless.
Posted by Ray Pride at June 11, 2007 02:27 PM
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