A trio of carefully crafted scenes in the Barry season finale compels us to confront the consequences of killing. chaneyj writes
Photo: Merrick Morton/ HBO In the first scene of Barry season three, Barry Berkman shoots two men in the head without giving it a second thought. One of them, Charlie, has hired Barry to kill Jeff, who had slept with Charlie’s wife. Jeff tearfully apologizes to Charlie and begs for clemency, which Charlie grants him, making it unnecessary for Barry to pull the trigger.
On first viewing, this sequence plays mostly like a piece of Barry’s signature dark comedy. The abruptness with which Barry dispatches his victims, especially in contrast to the humanity they show one another, is morbidly funny. But it also plants the seed for one of the season’s primary themes, which is on full display in the season three finale: that a death, any death, should have an impact.
But we can’t distance ourselves from the impact of that behavior on Sally, whose reaction to what she’s done is captured in an extreme close-up that fully displays her shocked expression, the tears that run down her face, and the blood spatters on her forehead. We don’t see the pain Sally inflicts on her victim, but Sally’s anguish after the fact takes up the whole screen. Barry won’t let us look away from it.
Hank’s anger and fear, like Sally’s, boil over, giving him the adrenaline rush he needs to snap out of his handcuffs and do what his dead comrade couldn’t: shoot his way out of that dungeon and rescue Cristobal from Elena, who is trying to electroshock the gay out of her husband. When Hank shoots Elena, we barely see the bullet hit, and we don’t see her dancing assistant get shot at all — all of that happens off-camera.
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