Nearly to a fault, “Barry” continues to subvert expectations, inventing a brand new sort of motion choreography that by no means performs out in a traditional method. “Wow” was preceded by a traditional setup the place Sally and her son John have been taken hostage by Hank to attract out Barry, making for all the trimmings of a traditional, bloody shootout. As a substitute, Fuches and his males arrive with weapons pointed earlier than Barry ever has an opportunity to play the hero.
Fuches provides Hank an ultimatum, saying both they will all kill one another or Hank can admit that Cristobal’s demise was his fault, no matter whether or not it was an accident or not. In jail, Fuches has been brutally molded, day in and time out, to turn out to be the person he actually is, and he needs Hank to confess that he is pretending to be somebody he isn’t. Hank buckles beneath the stress and breaks down from years of suppressed grief, with the statue of Cristobal leering behind him.
It is an extremely well-crafted shot that makes it seem as if the statue and the spirit of Cristobal are listening and judging Hank when he begins to inform the identical story to Fuches that he is been attempting to inform himself for years. But it surely wasn’t an accident, and Hank lastly breaks down in entrance of everybody, simply earlier than Fuches out of the blue shoots him within the abdomen, igniting the sudden burst of short-lived, nearly comical violence that “Barry” has turn out to be well-known for.
Proving that one of the best moments in “Barry” all the time come on the most inopportune occasions, Hank passes away laying on the toes of Cristobal’s statue clasping onto his golden hand. Along with his last breath, he turns into a part of the memorial to the lover he had murdered, a picture that will be nearly laughable if it wasn’t so unexpectedly heartbreaking.