What makes a thriller good? enjoyable, entertaining? Specially when we know real life is more of a challenge and drama than a thrill, so why we keep investing ourselves in stories about this people that tend to save the day, kill the bad guys, solve a puzzle and basically change the world. Spies, agents, super heroes, police man, assassins, detectives, terrorist, serial killers, all up for a good thrill, an adventures willing to be explore and make us go through a series of challenges and mostly face a bunch of bad people that is trying to do something bad in a big scale or just get us in trouble, How fun is that? Well, sadly there hasn't been much innovations in a genre that basically screams for a twist or a pop corn time. So what makes us feel up for that thrill? what possible a thriller can bring to add something to our lives? the idea of feeling adventurous? a dream of saving the day? a challenge to help to save the puzzle behind a mystery? Or just feed our need and appetite for some violence that sadly to say it's part of our nature and better to explore it by a fictional tale than in real life. But if we can actually have a story and some human emotion among all this would that it make it more real or at least more empathetic? Is it movies supposed to imitate real life or actually is our daily lives the ones trying to imitate movies and pop culture, submerge in a false reality where we need role models and inspiration to make through our simple lives and a need to transform all those dreams and human desires of violence, power, adventure and to transcend that inspire movies and these inspire us.
And so is the story of Christian Wolf, one of his multiple alias, using famous mathematicians names to keep his real identity hide. And why is this guy doing that? well, just because he is having a double life, serving as a regular under rated accountant, proving his services to the community taking as a form pf payment any other thing that he would need at the moment, like a favor or a thing, but not cash, for that he is working for big corporations and famous cartels, mafia, and other not very legal resources, but getting very nice payments that as illegal as their costumers activities are, so the money is it so he will use his skills as an accountant to hide their activities and help them to keep their business going. But as ideal as this situation sounds, it's obvios to assume that won't be as easy as it sounds. Dealing with this kind of people brings another kind of risk, from their side and from the law, so obviously he has to be prepare and because this is a movie, he will, thanks to his father that works in the military, he would train him and his brother to be prepare to face any threat and challenge the best way possible, so for that, he would learn all kinds of self defense and later about how to use guns and be the best at it. And just because this is a movie he will beat anyone that crosses his way and he will be as precise and accurate that he can kill an entire mafia and face the highest and well trained assassins in town.
So far everything sounds like a big cliche, Another average and typical movie. Another thriller full of action and explosion with well made action and fighting scenes with a talented cast and charming protagonist but what make this one worth the ticket or our time? Or what separates this one from all the other where a guy/girl with high skills for fighting and espionaje will save the day? Well, happens that our hero has a sort of autism, and for all who know a bit about this condition will understand that even that from one perspective seems like they are crazy people, is actually the opposite. They are people gifted, very talented and with skills over develop and that's why it's hard for them to communicate, socialize and behave in a normal way for most of the standard, as they don't know how to do it in their very own way. So we can witness by flashbaks how difficult was his life for a young boy that saw his family suffer, and only found a sort of friendship through his brother and other kids with similar conditions. And so he has a motive and with the proper training he got the skills to be able to have a normal life, look to others eyes like a normal talented guy while in real life he is hiding his condition while trying to survive and make the best of it, dealing with his own suffering, the one coming from his own condition and fears and the sadness and loneliness seeing his family be done, and for that he has build a personal revenge through all the people that has cause some kind of damage or hurt the people he that had helped him at some point.
I know, everything still sounds very cliche and the fact that a guy with a condition like that is able to achieve this quest and keep things going, sounds more like a super hero story than a real life drama, where getting to know yourself and accepting your flaws will take you further and can make you capable or great things, some of them you'd never imagine. But the fact that this man is kicking all the bad guys asses and is hiding behind the numbers with an identity as normal and low key as any accountant, trapped in an office working with numbers and paper work, but as fascinating as it is to be able to identify by understanding numbers the situation of an entity, business or corporation, identifying where is being hurt and what is happening behind the curtain. Same way you can understand and identify anyone's behavior and set of mind, by analyzing clues like their past, body language and background is what makes him special and human. He is just trying to understand himself, to make it up for all the suffer and struggle he brought to his family. Trying to adapt to a society that doesn't understand him and trying to feel normal. He might not be able to act like an average guy but he has the same feeling and desires just came in a different way so he just need to find the way to make peace with all that and the damage he is causing in order to move on and start a normal life, because all that he wants is to feel and being seen normal, respected as an equal.
When we look back to the moments in our past when we were kids, and how they transform us, how they changed us, or influenced we realize they are mostly experiences mostly shared with others and how they made an impact in our perspective of things. Either they helped us to lear a lesson or be better in certain way or they hurt us creating a hole that will be fill with insecurities or fears, so we are just the result of that sum of experiences and other's impact in our lives. We can just blame ourselves of the decisions she make but we have to learn to make peace and accept things as they come as most of the time we don't look after them but they happen like a movie script and we deal the consequences for the rest of our lives. So is our hunky well trained autism character, trying to fit in the world, looking for answers and fighting for what he believes and needs to keep going. Crossing paths with people that will understand him and will see the best on him as we all have, and others that will try to take advantage of him, not knowing what are they getting into, but realizing that acceptance and giving to ourselves the chance of getting to know the people we are trying connect with will make the difference and is what we are all here about, to find answers to our own issues but not by putting them on others but learning from others experiences how to deal with them. And just with selfishness and honesty we will be able to love and accept and love ourselves and everybody is counting on that. We are all different and that is what makes unique and great so not letting others to take us down is what a thriller means, that's our real fight and that's a challenge that will take all our nerve and courage to face live as it comes and learn from the love and pain.
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