In its continuing commitment to theatrical, Amazon MGM Studios is releasing the Ben Affleck thriller 'The Accountant 2' on April 25, 2025.
  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    The Accountant is one of my guilty pleasure movies. Awesome action and violence but it’s fantasy about autistic people is rather problematic.

    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      I found it fine really. He’s great at killing because he was traumatized into being a super soldier and having plot amor, not because he’s autistic.

      • LarmyOfLone@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        I liked it too, but it does lean into the “Autism as a secret superpower” trope (search). On the other hand it shows that even non-verbal autistic people like Justine can have much more coherent minds than what you see from the outside. I watched “The Reason I Jump” a while back and it really opened my eyes. I highly recommend watching it.