The Accountant is an intriguing movie about a guy with aspergers, a form of autism, who does the accounting for different criminals throughout the world. The action thriller portrays the character Christian Wolff as a guy with High Functioning Aspergers. It shows his difficulty in expressing emotion, it shows him "stemming" or using self stimulation (stemming is a behavior we see in Robb in which he swings a t-shirt or dish towel), and he also gets set in daily routines (Robb is also a big fan of routines, always getting irritated when we drive off the normal route, for example). At the same time, though, the movie portrays Wolff as a genius who can deal with any numbers put in front of him. Many people with autism have excelled in math and engineering namely Temple Grandin and Einstein. Many people do not feel the movie is realistic saying that he would have suffered more sensory overload after each murder, and he would have been consumed by guilt. While this is true for some people with autism, I think the idea that "when you have met one person with autism you have met one person with autism" can be applied to this movie, and Wolff could easily be a real person with autism. Though Hollywood may seem somewhat unrealistic (an accountant who is also a trained killer), I believe this move does do a great job at showing not only the struggles of many people with autism but also their strengths. It shows that being autistic does not make a person stupid, and instead it is just another way of seeing the world (and in some cases, it allows people to become prodigious in some fields)! My family has been able to relate this character to my own brother, and I think that it will change people's view on autism for the better!
