The workshop and the iconic look

Last weekend I completed the revisions on the outline. It was painless. The workshop made the strengths and weaknesses so clear.
Going over the video record I was struck by how good my actors were (I find it difficult to notice in the middle of the workshop, struggling to keep them in the frame of the camera).
I was especially happy at the effectiveness of the iconic look, the moment of recognition. The actors jumped in and committed to it.
For Sophie: she has come through the dark passage and come into the parking garage. Fear is overcome, and she has broken through. Released. Then the moment of recognition. Of what? It is not about what she has been through. More, about where she is going. The next scene. She has allowed herself to let it be.
For Claire: until now she has never really looked at anyone. She cannot see what is immediately in front of her. But just before this scene, with Nick, she has been able to finally look at someone. She has understood his weakness, thought of someone else, which for her is progress.
She has a relapse. She wants it back, even though it is a lie. She rushes to the park, thinking of calling him back, but he is gone. Nowhere to be seen.
She turns away and goes to the grass, nearly collapsing. She cannot hold herself up any more. She lies on her back scanning the dark, gray sky. But it is a nothing. No break anywhere.
And then the iconic image, the moment of recognition. She realises she will not be allowed this.
(I will have more to say about this scene later: on early Sunday morning I was scouting locations for this scene).
I think Paul' moment is the least clear.
It starts with confusion over it's placements. The moment precedes the scene where he breaks into Sophie's house. He believes that he can somehow know her by seeing the mundane, everyday elements of her life. Perhaps he is right.
In the workshop my question was would it be more logical if it followed the break-in? It all depends. The question then is, what is Paul when he breaks in? Or more importantly what is Paul in the forest?
This is Paul at the trees. It begins with frustration and anger. It is place he can break something without consequences. He takes his revenge, or attempts to. Actually it is not so easy to break large tree branches. More than just frustration, Paul is struggling not to submit to the universe, becomes small. He is not going to drift with it, but swim against it. And he fails, and becomes the animal he was struggling against. This is the moment of recognition. He has become what he has always fought. He is no longer the complete man that Sophie rejected.
Now if the break-in is to follow...what does it mean? Paul is able to go to a place where he is no longer concerned with normally acceptable behaviour (this is not the man Sophie saw give that too perfect presentation on the day his wife left him). Does this ring true?