When I saw "Before The Devil Knows You're Dead", I recall being so blown away by the performance of Philip Seymour Hoffman that I couldn't help but wonder at the time if he'd faced in real life some of the demons his character did in the movie.
There is something so haunting and ominous in this sequence watching it now, that you almost don't see him as portraying a character in a film, you almost see it as him realizing something about his own life. Scary.