The Final Solution
May 10th, 2004, 04:46 PM
Don't watch it regularly on Hebrew Box Office, but caught a few episodes recently and one of the major themes seems to come out when Tony (the NJ mob boss) is in "therapy" with Lorraine Bracco of Goodfellas fame. Bracco seems to be of a "psychodynamic" persuasion, meaning Freud minus the couch, and she consistently tries to convince Tony that his anger against his mother, and culturally characteristic deprecation of (or perhaps realism regarding) women generally, is really "displaced" rage against his father. They even threw in an Oedipal scene a few weeks back in which Tony fucked his dead father's elderly mistress.
What is Hymie saying here? Women can do no wrong? Not even a conflict of interest between the sexes? You can't ever be angry at women, only at men, chiefly your father? Pathological, itz?
BTW, the therapy angle is not original: it is based on the true life of Lucky Luciano partner Frank Costello, one of the models for The Godfather, and the one who in real life got Sinatra out of his contract with bandleader Tommy Dorsey.
What is Hymie saying here? Women can do no wrong? Not even a conflict of interest between the sexes? You can't ever be angry at women, only at men, chiefly your father? Pathological, itz?
BTW, the therapy angle is not original: it is based on the true life of Lucky Luciano partner Frank Costello, one of the models for The Godfather, and the one who in real life got Sinatra out of his contract with bandleader Tommy Dorsey.