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).
Like all relationships, marriage is complex, sometimes
volatile, and often grounded in our
emotions.