
Before human beings used cameras to tell their stories, before books and bards and cave paintings, probably, there was the movie of the mind, the never-ending picture starring . . . you. One can be at their lowest and still get top billing; our egos can't help it. The world around us is the picture and we are the auteur, moving through, telling the story of ourselves.
Bill Hader solidifies this message throughout "Barry" and within its ending by flexing the directing skills he's nurtured since the show's launch.