Each of us has some psychological problems to a greater or lesser extent, and autism is like a closed door set up psychologically, and the patient forms two worlds with his surroundings.
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Ben, the protagonist of "Ben X", is such a person, he abandoned the world, and the world abandoned him at the same time. He refuses to communicate with people, hates to show false smiles in front of others, can't understand why this behavior happens when he sees others kissing, and even wears headphones to school so that the noise around him doesn't affect him. The only thing that makes him happy in life is sitting naked in front of the computer, swimming in a virtual game, and there is a girl in the game who accompanies him all the time. Although he is a master in the game and his game account has also been trained to level 80, he often suffers from bullying from his classmates in real life, and from the current point of view, he is really a real.
What kind of people are easily targeted for bullying on campus? Introverted and inferior, obedient, taciturn and timid... These people are often on the fringes of the crowd and are easy targets for bullying on campus. Is it more insulting to be introverted, afraid of things, and discriminated against by others without talking?
The protagonist Ben in "Ben X" recalls the scene when he was a child, he is not good at words and when he argues with his classmates, others make mistakes, the teacher always criticizes him, no matter what, the problem is always him. So everyone bullied him without any scruples.
When he went to the hospital for a check-up, the doctor said that he was a special person, more sensitive than the average person. His sensitivity comes from the very bad experience he has had around him, his classmates playing with him, some people attacking him with things, and even those classmates taking off his pants in front of everyone, taking pictures with their mobile phones, cheering. Autistic, he does not defend, the teacher is confused about his behavior, and his mother cannot understand his behavior.
Ben's encounters, Ben's sadness, Ben's anger, all his experiences are with the girl in the game who has been with him, the girl has been encouraging him, but also to meet with him. But in reality, Ben did not see the girl as promised, but was once again bullied and ridiculed by his classmates, spitting into his mouth, and sending a video of his humiliation to his home.
Ben can't really tell where the line between reality and virtual is, and he wants to commit suicide in a trance, but is saved by the girl in the game. He chatted with the girls, ate, at home, in the car, and on the boat as if the girls had been with him all the time. These behaviors of his seem very strange to outsiders: Ben is there muttering to himself who he is talking to, why does Ben smirk,...... In fact, the girls in the game are all fantasized by Ben, indicating that Ben's autism is more serious. Ben's heart was in a state of collapse. In the end, Ben recorded a video of suicide...
Seeing this, my heart is really heavy, I remembered a sentence I saw in the canoe "Stars in the Deep Sea", in fact, the world does not feel this thing at all, the needle does not pierce others, they do not know how much pain.
In real life, the campus is a greenhouse, but in recent years, violent incidents have frequently appeared on the campus, and the object of bullying is mentioned above, and the characteristics and harm of campus violence are basically insults and beatings, forced undressing, photo insults, etc.
This is a bullying incident in Busan, where a 14-year-old girl was brutally beaten by classmates at a factory.
A 17-year-old high school student in Thailand, Ohm, because of his weight, has long been ridiculed and toyed with by his classmates, and finally can't bear to jump off a building and die.
Repeated satires and personal attacks, which seem harmless to some people, are actually accomplices that crush the spirit of the victims. Socrates said that those who provide their children with a great deal of wealth and do not pay attention to improving their character are just like those who feed their horses well and never train them to be useful materials.
The greatest wealth of parents' concern for their children is companionship, not giving them unlimited material things. The movie "The Road Not Chosen" has such a clip.
Gawa was bruised in the face by several classmates at school, and Eryong asked him why he didn't fight back. He said: If you can't fight, it's useless to fight back. When Er Yong heard this, he immediately said to him: "It is a matter of ability to fight too much, and it is a matter of attitude whether to fight or not to fight..."
Speaking of which, the companionship of parents to their children is very important, because in the day and night together, it is easy to perceive the various conditions of children, so as to teach them to learn to protect themselves, the most important thing is to have the courage to fight back, and what about future success in life without fighting back?
"Ben X" is a film with a high Douban score, but the number of comments is only 10,000, and the audience is very small. Those who are isolated, who are bullied, and those who have this symptom, do you have a deep understanding when you watch this film?
The first half of Ben X is very realistic, almost indistinguishable from reality, and Ben's heart lives with two people, a person who is bullied—himself, and a person who encourages himself—a person who really wants to die. Ben's heart has been struggling, he wants to die easily, but another he encourages him not to let him commit suicide.
The second half of Ben X takes a big turn, and the suicide video he recorded gets the attention of the school, the attention of the society, and the people who bully him are also ashamed. Ben wasn't dead, it turned out that his parents had designed it all to get attention. Ben also managed to get out of autism and start a new life.
Ben X is director Nic Balthazar's debut film, which was shot in Flemish, one of the languages of the Belgian court. Director Nic Balthazar is of course a Belgian film critic with tentacles in culture and television, but also as a cultural show host, who wrote the script into a novel before filming began. The film won the Sedonalnternational FilmFestival Jury Award and audience voting favorite.
This film puts aside those game interfaces with special effects ideas, it is a story of an ordinary autistic person who struggles internally after being bullied, and its highlight is that the experience of the two characters in the game makes the audience wonder whether the girl is real or not. But it can also be said that she is true, or it can be said to be false. The end of the film did not really commit suicide, just a part of the planning, this serendipity sublimated the entire film, so that autism, and school bullying incidents, have been effectively solved, its significance lies in this, so that more people to understand and know what the matter itself looks like, more tolerant and kind to some marginal people. Its significance gives the whole film a new color.