There's a particularly heartfelt and comedic scene in American Ultra, in which Jesse Eisenberg's character, Mike Howell, stoned out of his goddamn mind, looks at a car that's crashed into a tree, and with
a single tear streaming down his face — something of an Eisenberg specialty — apologizes to his girlfriend Phoebe Larson (Kristen Stewart) for being the tree that's stopping her, the fast - moving car in this metaphor.