The Rachel O’Reilly murder - and the verdict is guilty!
There are few, if any, people who remain unconvinced that Joe O’Reilly was responsible for the brutal murder of his wife Rachel.
The Hog, 27 Jul 2007
It was the movement of his mobile phone on the day of the killing – and the fact that it confirmed that he had lied to police regarding his whereabouts – that made the crucial difference. But the use of this, and other forms of electronic evidence – including a series of emails – in the case has given rise to concerns about how private our lives really are in the 21st Century.
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At face value The Sopranos was just a long-running saga of murderous New Jersey Italian gangsters. But as it unfolded it revealed layer upon layer. Brilliant, vast, complex, sprawling, it is being read as a parable of 21st century America and is universally applauded as one of the greatest TV series ever. It had everything, and more.
It has spawned a vast print and web literature. Many doctorates will be achieved by analyses of it over the next two decades, possibly more. Hundreds of millions have watched it rumble towards its conclusion. How would such a huge endeavour be resolved? How would it all end?
With 10 seconds of blank screen, that’s how. Then the credits rolled.
Well, what did we expect? Closure, you might say. People wanted it… to conclude, to wrap. But in this instance, the producers refused to play ball…
This word ‘closure’ appears in the Oxford Dictionary, but the meaning now most generally attached to it is not mentioned. This meaning has seeped into general usage from the ‘talking cures’. In Ireland that means various kinds of therapeutic counselling, to which a large swathe of the population is attached, if not addicted. But the word is also much loved by journalists, who assume that we all share the same understanding of what is a complex thing in itself.
Well, closure you may have wanted but what you got from writer/director David Chase was 10 seconds of black. Those ten seconds are now being mulled over and deciphered and deconstructed. Maybe the end meant that Tony was whacked. Maybe you’re just left to find your own ending. Maybe it’s a statement about the nature of fiction. Maybe there are clues buried in the script…
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