/lit/ - Literature

This scene was so good, there's so much packed into it. JT is Chris' only real friend or anything like a real friend he's ever experienced, since his mob friends can never be real friends, because their whole lifestyle is fundamentally broken. JT and the whole situation with him are representative of Chris' "neither in nor out" relationship to the mob world. He's miserable, talks about being in hell, but he's also completely a creature of that world and has no realistic way to break out of it. JT represents the outside boring/normal but healthy world, both being where Chris wants to go, and where he can't ever go, and JT symbolically rejects Chris as an irredeemable creature of the underworld ("you're in the mafia!").

Chris is right on the border between the two selves he can't be, JT is like the gatekeeper. You can basically feel Chris die inside at the end of the scene, the tension he's had for the whole show between these two irreconcilable things just collapses into a mush. The acting is so good too.