The Accountant - Accountant Assassin

Amparo 2022-04-21 09:01:25

The first time I was recommended for "Accounting Assassin" was because it was at the top of the accountant's list of 10 must-see movies.

The second time was recommended by a friend in college.



The first time I saw that list was when I was busy in the gap between the audit and the senior financial accounting exam.

I studied CiCPA (Certified Accountant) in a well-known financial institution in China. In fact, I really didn't have the slightest enthusiasm for accounting at the beginning. What I always wanted to study was actually law. Studying this major for three years is more like fulfilling an obligation than a responsibility from the heart. I deal with a bunch of numbers every day - with the heart of selling white fen and earning money for selling cabbage; the future is not easy - those who do well are admitted to the hospital, and those who do not do well are admitted to the cheongsam.

But the male protagonist belongs to the kind of man who has done a good job but has been in prison. (See the movie for the specific reasons.)

At the beginning, throw out the old stalk of autism in the movie. I thought the movie would be a very common description of autism - it's obvious that this part is focused because of autism, and has some abilities that ordinary people can't achieve. But the doctor's definition of "Normal" managed to catch my attention. Why is it normal? Is normal ordinary or different? In the doctor's cognition, normality is like the idealism of Protagoras - normality is a different definition of human beings, and human beings' definition of normality can achieve normality. If a person who is not "normal" defines "normal", it must be "abnormal" in the eyes of "normal" people, and vice versa.

However, I feel more like the film uses autism as a reason why the male protagonist has such super high accounting skills and the efficiency is amazing. I'm afraid this is also to highlight the effect of the movie without going against the common sense "I have to do it" (perhaps this is why I didn't give a five-star praise in the end).



The second time I saw a friend's recommendation, I was actually surprised. Planting grass is a long time movie because I couldn’t find the resources (it was originally in Tencent VIP), and it was a pleasant feeling that it was finally handed over. Special thanks to Mr. Sun Sun.

Then, as soon as he gave me the movie ticket, I turned off "Assassin's Creed" on Migu and watched "Accounting Assassin" with excitement and devotion. There is a magical and subtle coincidence.

The film itself is actually full of coincidences.

In the chaotic street at first, the man walked on the road with a pistol and finally stumbled into a tavern. It combined the western elements of the tavern and the corpse, as well as the suspenseful shots of Hitchcock, and the looming dark-style nursery rhymes. Humans are brought into a world that has nothing to do with numbers. Later, the male protagonist appeared and was investigated by the Ministry of Finance. But until the end, it turned out that the pursuit was just a change of protagonists and characters, and chasing and being chased was more like a back-and-forth game.

The only constant is the nursery rhyme with a slightly dark, fateful and coincidental style. This is a bit of a combination of Grandma and O Henry.

In fact, when I was watching the movie, I always wondered if the director forgot about the male protagonist's younger brother and gave so many shots, was it soy sauce? However, at the end, the mysterious appearance of the head of the bodyguard hired by the employer, passing by again and again but focusing on close-up, was originally thought to be an awesome opponent created by the director that needs to be defeated by the male protagonist, but in the end it turned into a marriage confession. When the employer watched the two brothers meet in the kitchen where they were beaten in confusion, he made a typical American complaint and was shot. (Don't be too long-winded when you are old.)

In fact, the head of the bodyguard stared at the set surveillance screen and watched the nursery rhyme recited in it. I have to say that this little brother's acting skills are really good and very tense. It was through his acting skills that I found out that he was the younger brother, which made the audience's heart skip a beat. It can be said to be a very successful episode.

On the other hand, although this movie does use stalks in some places, it is this kind of application that makes the logic of the whole movie feel almost "impeccable". Whether it's the male protagonist's house design and the "storage room", or the origin of the mother's training to leave the fight, various places are unique and interconnected. Although it can't be "stunning", it really reflects the rigor of accounting, and it is also very relevant.



Finally, let's talk about the professional hard goods involved in the movie itself - accounting.

Like the male protagonist, sorting out the accounting books for fifteen years in one night and finding loopholes is really a god-level operation. The general accountant spends two or three days to analyze the reports for more than three years (mostly 3 to 5 years), and can almost come up with a report in the same format as the male protagonist. The accuracy and accuracy are incomparable with the operation of the male protagonist. The operation of the male protagonist combines auditing (false account identification and independence), actuary (perfect interpretation of numbers), accounting (financial knowledge) and financial management (the development trend of the company's listing) and finally the most critical mathematics. Yes, sometimes I find that the magical subject of mathematics can support the whole world like philosophy. Therefore, mathematics and philosophy measure the breadth and depth of human thinking, and the two complement each other, which is actually very reasonable.

Although I think it is a bit lacking that although the film director has a bit of this meaning, the meaning is not very clear - to connect the inner philosophies of the accountant and the assassin (the director ambiguously used childhood bullying and anti-bullying things to hint and help gangsters The dangerous work of money laundering is clear), but the deep logic is still somewhat lacking. (Another 4-star reason)

In short, the movie itself is very good and worth watching. Especially for those who have gradually lost their enthusiasm for the profession/occupation of accounting or who have not been enthusiastic at all, it is undoubtedly a disguised incentive.

Finally, I have been struggling with the name Huang for a long time, so let's name it after the movie itself. The writing is too stream-of-consciousness, and it is really difficult to pick a topic.

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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?