Fan Casting Dad in Gore Verbinski's Bioshock

Jack's fabricated father, a mid-century businessman who films graduations, hosts backyard parties, and expects his son to join the family firm. He is proud, awkward, and well-meaning but oppressive. He is not real—a construct in a false memory designed to give Jack a childhood he never had. After the twist, his warmth becomes a ghost, a loving fiction that never existed.