Gibney cuts to the final shot: a black screen. Then, the faintest sound of a diner bell. Then nothing.
Through reenactments (a risky choice for Gibney, but rendered here with a dreamlike, almost Lynchian filter), we see the origins of Livia Soprano. Chase admits, for the first time on camera, that his mother once told him, “I wish you were never born.” He says it casually, then looks away. “But she made great manicotti,” he adds. The room laughs. It is the laugh of survivors. Wise Guy- David Chase and The Sopranos Miniseri...
Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos airs on HBO in the fall. It is not a celebration. It is a wake. And you are invited to bring your own gabagool. Gibney cuts to the final shot: a black screen