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Hypocrisy of man

Finally finished frying my gelatinous grey cells with all six seasons 86 episodes of the Sopranos. The filthy flowery foul 'f' prefixing 4-lettered sentences still keep vibrating in my inner ears.
The six seasons showed the life of a couple in their mid 40s and their two teenage kids. Their relationship go through thick and thin as they battled midlife crisis, depression, infidelity, troubles arising from raging hormones from the teenage kids who think they know better than their parents who were thrice their age.
It is surprising that even though the whole saga is fictitious, it ridiculously strikes a cord with parents of teenagers even in so called less developed parts of the world like ours.
With globalisation, traditional values have taken a back seat and the younger generation are looking common universal values like human rights, self centeredness, lack of respect for elders and sanctity of 'good' values. This forms an excellent platform to showcase how these sugar craving short-attentioned, instant gratified teenage punks' inertia and laid back attitude to challenges of life. Whilst their parents would embrace life head on for survival, their offspring tend to take things lying down, enjoying the finer things if life.
The adults' hypocrisy is highlighted in their overtly sinfully bad lives. The same hand that the guys use to cross their heart in the shape of the Holy Cross is the same one that pulls the trigger of the gun that is pointed to his foe's heart. After doing their clandestine criminal and extramarital acts, they religiously present themselves at church events. With all these going on, the adults expected their kids to be disciplined and God fearing.
The show takes a swipe at the our modern life's preoccupation with psychiatry rather than rationalise our stress to it. At the end of the day, the psychiatrist stopped seeing the protagonist after her contemporary's research which suggested that sociopaths use their sessions to justify their criminal activities. In spite of all the psychological pains in the family, all of it disappeared over time as the kids grew older and more mature spontaneously with passage of time.
The cast of the Sopranos has given an oral history of the show to the new Vanity Fair. Even star James Gandolfini admits the final scene, in which his family goes out to eat and the screen went dark, left him baffled
Tony Soprano justifies his actions as he provides for the family. The wife prefers to wear the blinkers as long as the money is there. The children feels their life 'sucks'. They lack the fighting spirit and coping mechanisms that their parents  had. The glaring difference between the two generations is poverty.
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