"......Be what it is,
The Action of my life is like it, which
I'll keep if but for sympathy."
Sunday, 23 October 2016
PS: "It's Father's Day and Everybody's Wounded"
"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.
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