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Hanzee couldn't get in to the American dream, Peggy couldn't get out. Milligan got what he wanted, not what he wanted (a black cowboy has to change his spots). Lou understands his place. Hank has broken through identity (in an ego shift after his wife died) and is trying to construct an archetypal language, after he's seen too many incarnations and versions of misunderstanding and violence. This all started to War Pigs by Black Sabbath. It's a clear condemnation of American society (the mob is corporate America), but of the systems in place of our own understanding (ego), and the projections and expectations we all think we think. Our brainwashed minds are poisoned.
It's a story about place. I think it's a story about enlightenment. Until you realize it's all the same shuffling paradigm (archetypal), you will finish where you begin, the start is the end and the end is the start, as in a palindrome.