Contrast can cause harm, and contrast can lead to curative effect

Aurore 2022-03-25 09:01:06

This film is a purely commercial action film, and the possibility of making a prequel and a sequel is reserved. If the film makes a fortune, a sequel looks ready. The movie uses a lot of details to completely compare the changes of the characters over time, and also uses a lot of shots, and the narrative contrast echoes before and after. disease tendency.

A family, three children have different degrees of autism symptoms. The girl Justine is more serious, Christian is slightly more serious, and the protagonist's younger brother Braxton just doesn't speak, which is relatively mild.

Christian teenager: Unconsciously swaying back and forth, reciting nursery rhymes silently, blowing fingers on both hands before doing things, obsessed with completing one thing, if it can't be completed or interrupted, it will go into a frenzy state, not close to people, only like the same style and color clothes. The IQ is extremely high. For a 100-piece or 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, the collage can be completed instantly in the back state and through inner calculation (externally characterized by finger shaking). In the film, when the mother communicates with the expert, the father walks to the display board of the child's paintings, and you can see the six facial expressions drawn by the protagonist. Expressions have a common feature: the face is extremely round, the eyes are in the same position. Can't stand noise and bright light.
Christian is an adult: the back and forth swing disappears (often done by practicing long-distance target shooting, and the target is the melon and fruit with the expressions drawn as a teenager); after the pressure is released, recite the nursery rhyme silently (after avenging the teacher); blow the fingers of both hands before doing things; Complete the task; if you can't complete it, you will enter a state of anxiety, the pressure will increase, and the stability will decrease; you want to be close to people, but you don't know how to express it (communicate with the heroine); you still only like the same clothes of the same color (displayed when the police search the wardrobe). The IQ is extremely high (expressed as mathematical talent and sensitivity to numbers, logical judgment, the heroine checks one year's accounts in one week, and the protagonist checks 15 years' accounts in one day), because he can't stand noise and strong light, so every time Before going to bed each time, turn on the music to the loudest, and stimulate yourself into a habit with strong light flickering.

Braxton Junior: Quiet, no communication, the only person who can communicate with Christian.
Braxton is an adult: talkative, directly gives all possibilities and gives the other party options, but still does not like to communicate. In contrast to when I was a teenager, basically the same thing is that I still don't like to communicate.

Justine Junior: Unconsciously maintain a state of madness. After the protagonist loses a puzzle, pick it up and calm the protagonist. When picking up and handing the puzzle to the protagonist, the gesture is stable and the frenzy disappears.
Justine Adult: Involuntarily staying in a state of madness. The madness disappears when communicating with the computer. Function: Provide online support for the protagonist, forge documents, clear data traces, transfer funds, etc.

Dana: When I chatted with the protagonist, I talked about the painting of the dog playing cards. I saw the painting on the roof of the RV, and the killer shot the heroine in the toilet through the door. At the end of the film, Dana smoothes out the gun marks in the toilet, and receives a courier, a painting of a dog playing cards.

There are too many echoes in the film. For example, Justine asked: Why don't you run away quickly, the protagonist told Justine to find out who was going to kill Dana, and then beat his head. In the end, as expected, without saying a word, he directly overwhelmed the master's head. For example, Dana wants to get the "Wow" of others, so the protagonist writes a card to the heroine before doing the work.

The father did not agree with the experts to take the child away, and forced him to complete the transformation of the child through stimulation and training, so that he could enter the society smoothly. As a result, the parents broke up. Justine was sent to the Harbor Neurological Institute (specialist in the opening home visit), and Christian and Braxton followed their father for training.

Christian called his father to attend his mother's funeral. Because he was interrupted to look at the body (he did not complete the task he set), he ran away and injured many people. The police rounded up and shot him, and his father died in front of the protagonist. Christian went to prison to study accounting with his teacher. Because of his extremely high IQ, he quickly graduated. Braxton entered (or founded) the killer industry, providing clients with clearing crisis services. Christian provides account checking services to clients. After a customer forcibly interrupted the service, Christian became unstable, and after the killer started to clear the mission, Christian had to complete the interrupted mission and protect the heroine. In the end, the brothers met, the client was violent, and the play ended.

In the summer of autism (spring just sprouts and doesn't match the movie), ordinary people can't stand it. An unparalleled computer technology, a leader in the killer industry, an accounting audit actuarial money laundering force and firearms have entered the world. These three are still brothers and sisters, these three are still brothers and sisters, these three are still brothers and sisters (the important thing is said three times)... still people can't live? Would the odds of meeting this characteristic be greater than one in a billion?

When watching this movie, the brain unconsciously a "genius idiot Dream" lyrics:
Life is a dream
dreams quite good and bad
pleasures unbearable suffering hardship
did not know the pain and joy same
day made of wood with have their
wings high Fei does not have to

seriously suspect in the dream that the three siblings are aliens disguised as autistic patients. Hope to see these three in Avengers or Justice League or Prometheus 2 or Transformers or whatever. Looking back and thinking about it carefully, this is not a science fiction film, then, this is a pure commercial film, and then analyzing the logic or rationality or playing people to find fault will be "idiots". A careful taste of Hollywood's storytelling ability, the use of cameras, the grasp of rhythm, and the psychological control of movie viewing may be able to keep up with the pace of "genius".

The evaluation gave it "okay", popcorn, it's fun, and it's worth watching.

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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?