Father Figures

True I did not want to write any more about The Accountant, but this came to my mind just now:

"Christian Wolff" suffering from Asperger is exposed to two kinds of abuse. First his father who is unable to cope with his son's affliction and deals with it the only way he can by exposing him to the Spartan rule of what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger because he feel that is the only way to protect his son. Then after a funeral that went terribly wrong "Christian" gets arrested and the state discovering his mathematical skills uses him to go after terrorists. So again abused as a tool "Christian" learns the skills to make him a brilliant accountant and assuming the state should be a father two fathers have failed him so far.

In prison he gets to know Francis Silverberg, who introduces him into the criminal world of accounting for the mob, who also from the little glimpses we get of their relationship acts like a father to him. Once he learns that Silverberg was brutally tortured to death his path is set and he takes revenge. Yet and this is important he meets yet another father J.K. Simmons' Ray King. And there will be another "father" John Lithgow's Lamar Black, who will go to any length to protect his "child".

And this is only one aspect under which to watch this movie because it also deals with for example art. I certainly enjoyed it and will most probably watch it a second time.