The Accountant, the highly-anticipated action/mystery thriller starring Ben Affleck, features the Oscar-winning writer/actor/director in a very different sort of role as Christian Wolff; an autistic math-savant, lethal marksman and hand-to-hand combat expert who plies his skills as a sought-after bookkeeper for powerful and shadowy individuals all over the world. But while the film positions Wolff as a heroic and complex figure, some have raised the issue of the film none the less presenting a stereotypical or exploitative image of those on the autism spectrum.
In an upcoming interview with Screen Rant, the film’s director Gavin O’Connor defended he and Affleck’s approach to their unusual new hero.
In the film, Wolff is diagnosed with a high-functioning form of autism as a child, which impedes ...
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