The soul of self-salvation

Kay 2022-04-21 09:03:02

"Ben X" (Ben X) is director Nic Balthazar's debut film, the film was shot in "Flemish-language", one of Belgium's official languages, and won the jury and audience at the 31st Montreal Film Festival the highest award.
The protagonist of the story is a boy who has been autistic since childhood. Congenital with Asperger's Syndrome. In the game, he is a level 80 brave warrior, admired and worshipped by countless people. In reality, he is a child who is a hindrance to speaking and is often insulted and bullied at school. He has only been bullied since he was a child, but he does not even have the courage to resist. . But he's a warrior in his favorite online game, Archlord.
As the two bullies in the school became more and more aggressive, the boundary between reality and "ben" in the game gradually blurred... He thought about killing the two classmates who bullied him as demons just like in the game, but In the end, he didn't make a move, but was bullied by them again.
I was thinking of committing suicide to get out of my real predicament. An autistic person has no outside world, he only has his own inner world. And the most profound experience of the world is not taught by others, but judged by one's own instinct and conscience. He felt that the only way out was suicide.
At this moment, his partner in the game, a girl. Said to see him.
Ben went to the train station to pick up the girl, but he didn't recognize her. He kept following her to Brussels, feeling that he had no regrets, and wanted to kill the train, but the girl knew that it was Ben who was following him. In a crisis, she saved Ben.

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The most touching part is the part where Ben follows the girl, which touches the heart.

And the part of going home, in the song "Include Me Out", come home warmly

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Extended Reading

Ben X quotes

  • [first lines]

    Ben: [voiceover] It's hard to explain. It's hard to explain myself. But I never tell lies. Everything I say is true, even when I don't say a thing.

  • Ben: It is high time to become who you are.