oscar whose real dad had the wealth to send him to prestigious boarding schools and put him in race cars and wire him the funds for the summer vacations he takes his friends on. oscar whose real dad calls on his birthdays and christmas, precisely at nine o'five in the morning because it hasn't been blocked off in his calendar and is the time it takes him to walk from the parking garage to his office. oscar whose real dad comes to see him drive race cars when it's a quick flight away and happens to fall on a weekend when he doesn't have any important meetings scheduled.
his dad doesn't try to see him very often because he says it makes his mom upset. oscar didn't know his mom and dad still talk to each other. maybe they don't and his dad is just saying that so he doesn't hurt oscar's feelings. maybe his dad is lying to him.
mark doesn't lie to him. mark tells him to get his head out of his ass when he's driving like shit and to take the compliment when he tells him he's the best driver he's ever seen and to come here, son, you look like you could use a cuddle. just a nice warm cuddle from your old man, yeah? no tears, sweetheart, i've got you now. everything's alright. hm? what's that? yeah. daddy's got you now, osc. oh, you poor thing. daddy's going to take care of you, never ever leave you. why? because i love you. daddy loves you, oscar. oh, my little boy.
mark whose career ended in a sputtering fire instead of a blaze, which he's always resented until he met oscar because then he knew he was never meant to be a champion. mark whose priorities get crossed sometimes which leads to him getting accused of favoritism but he doesn't care because it's true, it's all true, and he may not be a good man but he isn't a liar. mark, who takes oscar with him on every vacation and asks him to stay with him in his home and brings him to every event so he can introduce him to important people and talks about him every chance that he gets so that people will look at oscar and never know that there was a time in his life when he wasn't loved.