why is the last episode of breaking bad called felina This is an interesting one. According to the wisest of us, “Felina” doesn’t refer to any chemical formula, but instead to Marty Robbins’ classic Western ballad, “El Paso.” In the song, the unnamed cowboy narrator falls in unrequited love with a Mexican girl named Felina in the border town of El Paso, Texas, only to kill one of her suitors out of jealously. The gunslinger flees to “the badlands of New Mexico,” and when he returns to El Paso, he sneaks past a group of lawmen to the bar where Felina would dance. The song ends as Felina puts a bullet in the narrator’s heart, but she kisses him on the cheek one last time before he dies. So how exactly does this song relate to “Breaking Bad?” According to Teran, Felina symbolizes Walt’s lust for power and control. “Felina is a metaphor for Walt’s double life,” Teran writes. “As Heisenberg, Walt becomes obsessed with the power and money that a being a drug kingpin brings. This power is his Felina, his weakness. But its backbone is the obsessive (destructive) love he also has for his family.” Breaking down the song stanza by stanza, Teran argues that “El Paso” mirrors the final season of “Breaking Bad” almost perfectly, including returning from an exile and avoiding the police. If the parallels are going to continue, someone close to Walt is going to shoot him by the end of “Felina,” and it might be someone you wouldn’t expect. “In Sundays episode, Marie stares out the window of a police vehicle. Shes in protective custody, being driven home in the wake of Hanks death, only she doesnt get to go home and is whisked away when her escorts discover that her house has been broken into,” Teran writes. If anyone on Breaking Bad has truly lost everything as a result of Walter Whites choices, its Marie. Shes lost her husband, her sister, and now her home. She is alone, swathed in black, and no longer comforted by the warm violets of her environs. Interestingly, in desert gemology, the color purple signifies purpose. And if anyone deserves a shot at Walt -- possibly more than Skyler and Jesse -- its Marie, the only utterly blameless victim in this whole mess.” Listen to Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” and decide for yourself. Even if it turns out to be wrong, at least you listened to a fantastic song, right?
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:03:35 +0000
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