jpCreative accounting, moral outsourcing, and men trapped inside games they agreed to play. From Ray McKinnon’s backwoods nightmare to Auster’s Möbius-strip of chance and punishment, these films use numbers the way horror uses knives.
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The Architecture of Determinism: Systems, Numbers, and Moral Outsourcing in Ray McKinnon’s The Accountant and Philip Haas’s The Music of Chance
The cinematic exploration of systemic entrapment finds its most profound expression through the subversion of traditionally neutral frameworks, such as accounting, actuarial science, and game theor…