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by Stewball
Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:58 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Upcoming Q and A
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Re: Upcoming Q and A

BillyShears wrote:Tell me everything about The Accountant.


The Accountant lives up to the tag line, which is asked a couple of times during the movie, "Do you like puzzles?"

Essentially, it's about a savant with high functioning autism. His father, with genuine tough love, teaches him to tough it through the things that upset him, and has him and his brother trained by a series of martial arts specialists as he grows up. He becomes a forensic accountant, "uncooking the books for some of the most dangerous people on the planet". Anna Kendrick plays a mid-level cost accountant at a legitimate company who discovers an anomaly on the books she can't explain. Afflack's character is brought in, and their relationship, between autistic and normal, is one of the many high points of the movie with a lot of subtle humor and several clever reveals. The thing about the Jackson Pollock painting is so well hidden-in-plain-sight and never revealed, blends the autistic theme with see it for yourself criticism of cynical, impressionistic artists by transforming it into something with a profound message that the artist never would, or could, employ. The producers are holding it so close to their chest, it makes me wonder if what they did was legally actionable. There's nothing about it on the DVD, even though I think what they've done is something new for Hollywood. I just happened to notice it, but did't think much about it until I looked up the original. It's important that for the characters, it is the original.

One of the other things that's hidden is a line (because isn't used) from the poignant song, "To Leave Something Behind", they play at the end. You have to get the song elsewhere to hear it: "I can get through the wall if you give me a door". It would have been so unbelievably perfect to use that line, [spoiler]when she's looking at the painting[/spoiler], I have to believe there's some reason I can't fathom, for why they didn't. Maybe because, like the painting, they not only wanted to lead people to think, but also to dig. Now every time I watch it, I hear it at that point with more emphasis than if they'd included it.

I've talked to some people on IMDb who say they are autistics and that the movie is authentic in that regard. (Some who don't claim to be autistcs, but are self-appointed "experts" nonetheless, say it isn't.) This movie speaks to the spectrum of autistic behavior, as well as the spectrum of general intelligence, for which we only test a small part of those spectrums. I offered, and a couple did agree, that it can be cool to be autistic. [spoiler]One of the reveals at the end dealt with an autistic who appeared not to be high functioning, but having been "given a door", was.[/spoiler]

This isn't "everything about the Accountant", but it's a beginning.