barry champlain be a radio phone in talk show host in dallas and whose no hold bar idea on a plethora of social issue disturb and offend many of his caller and listener . be barry a medium messiah in search of truth and or a social misfit out to assault his audience . this be an intense and provocative character piece about a man with almost no redeeming feature who at the same time seem to be onto some really profound philosophy . though co write and direct by stone and this be really bogosian piece all the way and he give an astonishingly hard edge and penetrate performance from which there be no escape . barry be at time one of the most loathsome character imaginable and spew bilious misanthropy at everyone around him and particularly those who care about him . but at the same time he be also strangely empathetic and hypnotic and sage and even lovable . bogosian hawkish feature burn into the frame and with his green eye constantly dart around a if permanently seek an answer to some riddle . the movie be essentially an angry and self righteous rant against all the bigotry and injustice and banality in the world and culminating in a wild three and a half minute rotate single shot of barry deliver the ultimate i hate everything speech and but boy do it pack a punch . the support cast be great and particularly greene a the ex wife and baldwin a the bos . robert richardson keen photography manages to keep the single radio studio set look interesting and there a tense score by stewart copeland and with a move coda feature that endear phone music piece and telephone and rubber band by the penguin cafe orchestra . if youre unfamiliar with bogosian and check out his amazing talent in this flick like his contemporary and bill hick and denis leary and he someone who rarely appear in the mainstream medium and purely because his writing be so out there . i find stone movie variable while i do not much care for his big success and but when he be more ordered and objective and a with this ( or salvador and nixon ) and he be much more incisive and arrest . a great primal scream of a picture and base on a play by bogosian and inspire by the true story of alan berg and a denver radio talk show host who be murder by neo nazi in 1984 .