"Accounting Assassin": Daily Life of Lost Heroes

Xzavier 2021-10-20 17:43:26

Regardless of all routines, the accountant played by Daben reminds me of the characters written by Raymond Carver, reticent but delicate, restrained and precise.

It is also a quiet performance. Ben Affleck has been ridiculed all year round for facial paralysis, while his younger brother Kathy Affleck’s performances in "Interstellar Crossing" and "Manchester by the Sea" in recent years have been widely praised. It was through the latter's interpretation of the painful "introverted restraint" that won the 2017 Oscar for Best Actor Award. But Daben’s temperament is slightly different from that of his younger brother. The younger brother’s role belongs to an acquired injury, while he is inherently cute. This feeling of "I know nothing/everything" is reflected in "The Lost Lovers" and "Escape from Tehran." In "Accounting Assassin", you can call it a stylized performance, and when it comes to the biopic "Life in the Darkness" that needs to show delicate and rich levels of emotion, his performance will instantly change the scene of the car accident. This "Accounting Assassin", which can barely be called a superhero movie, is a standard Hollywood commercial film. All the character traits of the "Accounting Man" can be found in similar movies, serving this kind of movie routines—— A miserable life experience or childhood → various superheroes' parents, single/double death mathematics genius, autism + obsessive-compulsive disorder → each superhero's quirks or weaknesses, top fighting, shooting and other skills → each Superhero Stunt Trench → The narrative of each superhero’s survival soil story is also smelly and vulgar: the main line works for the male protagonist and meets the silly white sweet girl who assists him-the girl investigates deeply and is involved in the conspiracy-the BOSS appears and the girl is caught Dangerous situation-after the male protagonist saves people and finishes work, there are two double lines outside, one is the line of capable female detectives investigating the protagonist, and the other is the line of the male protagonist’s childhood life and brother. The former launches phased results to make way for the sequel , The latter finally merged to increase the dramatic conflict leading to the ending. It can be said that, except for the fact that the last boss killer is the male lead’s brother, it makes people feel (pause) a little (feel) mind (brain), other plots basically don’t need too much brain (single) return (word) way. (Quantity) can be guessed. What makes this film unique is that the role played by Daben does not debut in the name of a hero, but a bereaved accountant suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder——

Patients with autism + obsessive-compulsive disorder, troubled by childhood shadows

Mathematics genius, good at accounting, suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, so ill-conditioned on the results

Motorhome, furnishings are broken, collection of Renoir, Pollock

Fall asleep with violent music, flashing lights and wooden sticks

Love guns, excellent shooting skills

The food is simple and regular, three fried eggs, three waffles and three slices of bacon

The heroes of this year are no longer the old-school image of Gao Daquan (those who dare to Gao Daquan must die miserably, better than the new version of Superman, but also have to pull the dark Batman to do things), who in the role It’s not a weird guy who is embarrassed to greet people, but the role of "Accountant Man" avoids the pleasing and funny (such as Deadpool, Iron Man, and the new Spider-Man) route in today’s commercial film roles and completely embarks on it. Another path-the ascetic life, a house with minimalist furnishings and a serious face of abstinence, and a sense of violation of "Superheroes are actually a horror?!", on the contrary, they make their charms outstanding.

Of course, the different ways of setting the characters are not enough to make it a good commercial movie. In the final analysis, the film is an action film, and although there are not many action dramas in this film, it is very exciting and beautiful.

Since 2002, the great success of Doug Liman and Paul Greengrass' "The Bourne Shadow" series has led to the three major trends that have been used in action movies so far-the hardcore that is clean and adaptable to the characteristics of different scenes. Action drama, handheld camera + fast and sharp editing, and endow the protagonist with humanized and civilian character characteristics. The agents stepped out of the Bond-style unattainable life of madness and drunken gold fans, and transformed into dangerous figures sitting next to the audience, from unreachable gods to ordinary people, killing but not If you pretend to be forced, you won't be able to save the world any more. Maybe I just want to know who I am and where I come from, maybe I just want to ask the higher authorities for an explanation.

The big book in this film is a killer hidden under his accountant identity. He originally helped a company to do audits as an accountant, but he did not expect that he had to take action to implement countermeasures because he assisted his sister in an accidental investigation of the truth and caused disasters. kill. The action scenes are all concentrated on the anti-kill stage, and the villain bodyguards one-to-many interaction with each other smoothly and smoothly. After the opponent falls to the ground, he does not forget to make up the knife. But what is puzzling is that after finally snatching a house of villains, the strongest boss left is actually his childhood brother, forcibly linked to his life experience, and somehow turned into brotherhood, leaving the audience with a look of WTF.

The funny boss in my favorite movie version of "Hellboy" has a cameo role in this movie.

However, setting aside all routines, the accountant played by Daben reminds me of the characters written by Raymond Carver, reticent but delicate, restrained and precise, holding the handset on my shoulder in a telephone booth in a gray scene. In the ear, directly said "Call if you need me" to the camera.

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The Accountant quotes

  • Dana Cummings: What is this place?

    Christian Wolff: Panamerica Airstream, 34ft 7inches long, 8ft 5 inches wide. Dimensions which are perfectly adequate for one person. Preferable, even.

    Dana Cummings: This is where you live?

    Christian Wolff: No, I don't live here, this is a storage unit, that would be weird.

  • Brax: When you interrupt somebody like that, it makes them feel that you're just not interested in what they have to say. Or maybe you think what you have to say is just more important that what I have to say. Is that what you think?