As with the original, director Shekar Kapur explores that particular
side of her personality via the relationships she had and almost had with the men around, personified in «The Golden Age» in the form of Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen) an explorer and pirate that tickles her fancy with the freedom she can never have, and manages the difficult feat of being simultaneously loyal and selfish and still likeable all the while.
As Crumb's «good»
personality, Barry, reaches out to his elderly psychologist (Betty Buckley)
via email for help, the screenplay fumbles the multiplicity
of its villain in the name
of cheap horror tropes; we only get to know the creepy
sides of Crumb.