If you ever wanted to see the duality of man, all you have to do is watch Punch Drunk Love. Paul Thomas Anderson’s warm, wonderful film repackages Adam Sandler’s rageful albeit juvenile on-screen persona into a still hilarious yet far more complex look at the relationship between loneliness, anger and love. Sandler stars as Barry Egan in the film, an isolated, chronically depressed business owner who is prone to violent outbursts and feels oppressed by the world around him. Change arrives for Barry in the form of Emily Watson’s Lena, the gentle, affectionate co-worker of one of Barry’s seven cruel sisters. Lena and Barry soon strike up a tentative and beautiful relationship. But when their fragile happiness is threatened by an unhinged mattress salesman, Barry must call upon the newfound strength love has given him to set things right. Featuring wonderfully surreal cinematography, propulsive editing and rich, dynamic performances from Adam Sandler, Emily Watson and the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Punch Drunk Love is Paul Thomas Anderson’s most humane and accessible film and a confirmation of Sandler’s singular talent.