Over another stretch
of about 10 minutes, we experience brutal rage (when Barry is
overwhelmed during a date with Emily Watson's Lena, a woman seemingly out
of his league, he steps into the bathroom and kicks in the stall doors, grunting with volatile distress), we experience achingly sincere
emotion (when the date ends with Lena unexpectedly calling Barry back up to her apartment for a kiss, he sprints down the hall like a man on fire
rushing towards an extinguisher, underscored by strings and accordions straight out
of an Audrey Hepburn romance), and we experience stark terror (after the date, Barry is accosted by extortionists and flees on foot as they pursue with hurled invective).