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Emil 2022-04-19 09:02:40

In the eyes of outsiders, the "children on the stars" is not a light problem, they are "weird people" with autism. "But maybe it's not a problem for him (them), the problem is the way people treat him (them)"...
"Ben X Overlord Game" brought me to know the same autistic teenager Ben, from the beginning of the film The weirdness of the beginning will definitely make normal people classify this child or even the film as a "freak". A "great god" in the virtual online game "Overlord" was bullied by his classmates because of his weird behavior in reality. Even the most beloved mother began to treat him with "normal" standards. Clumsy Ben started to be irritable and unable to communicate. At this moment, even I knew that death was his only ending, and he was indeed moving towards this ending step by step.
At his funeral, normal people reviewed his life, and the emcee of ceremonies mournfully ended the suffering of this "monster" with "people are not perfect, the important thing is to accept this reality". At this moment, the retrospective DV began a new interpretation: the scene where Ben was humiliated by the classmates was reproduced on the projection screen. At this time, the camera kept switching to the carnival faces of normal people amid the laughing noises in the background, and the stupid ones could only hide and dodge.
After all, who is the "normal" person? In the end, what is "normal"? Isn't it "normal" to go with the flow? ...
"All human failures are overconfidence." And this also sums up the direction of the film's ending. Perhaps only when people understand humility, the distance between wisdom and people is the closest!

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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.