X represents a collection of things. Ben X is the name of the male protagonist in the game. He is invincible in the game, so Ben X also refers to the collection of all the brave and positive aspects of "Ben".
The film is also known as "Overlord Game". The movie is based on an online game called "Overlord". For the "ben" with autism, he himself is the king of his own world.
The Dutch pronunciation of BEN-X means I am useless.
Misleading and misguided anti
director Mykola Bath obviously very hard on misleading and counter misleading settings.
Until the last moment before the film climax, the director used a lot of details to create the illusion that BEN would commit suicide. From a large number of directional shots, suggestive remarks from the mother when interviewed, the reflections of the students, and the summary and regrets of the teachers, they all vaguely and clearly tell the audience that something bad has happened. As the film progressed, we saw an image of a conservative bullying autistic child. Naturally, the audience went to the trap set by the director, that is, BEN committed suicide by being bullied.
But at the same time, the director is also in the process of the film, and constantly hints that we are not going to die.
The first is about the director’s misleading about the death of the club:
appearing in the film’s 1m20s-1m58s, interspersed with BEN’s game world in the interview with BEN’s mother. It can be seen that every time it appears, the camera is pushed closer. A little bit.
We can think that the director is misleading and emphasizing through the gradual advancement of the camera, that someone will die. In the subsequent interviews with teachers and classmates, everyone's regret and willingness to speak only reemphasized the above set of shots.
In the 65m9s-65m14s, there was a group of shots, BEN standing on the platform, the train brakes, and the next BEN mother said, I was shocked. This is obviously a very suggestive lens. By cutting into the words of the mother's interview, combined with the footage of the railroad tracks to achieve a misleading effect.
And this hint was pushed to the extreme in 66m49s. Soon after the scene where BEN wanted to kill himself with a knife, there was a scene where BEN was watching the train coming. From the plot point of view, jumping off the track to commit suicide is emotionally stronger than cutting the wrist. So we can think of the group shots as the emotional enhancement after the wrist cut, and the increase in BEN's thirst for death.
At this time, the time of the film, according to the structure of Hollywood plays, happened to be the time when the climax broke out. The director wanted to mislead the audience into thinking that the story would end here.
In fact, Scarlett's shot of pushing BEN down was not only misleading. She really killed BEN. In a sense, Scarlett officially killed the cowardly BEN who wanted to escape.
And the set of scenes where the teacher mentioned Jesus corresponds to the director's hint about the ending.
At 15m, the teacher talked about the death and resurrection of Jesus. This sentence actually told the audience the final outcome. However, he immediately used the teacher's emotional explosion to transfer the audience's attention to Bogart.
In fact, BEN is also the role of Jesus in the film. He is finally reborn after suffering, and it is also a kind of redemption for the painful perpetrators. In the film, there is frequent use of religious light, and there are often divergent lights like the holy light scattered around BEN as a hint.
Such as: 10:11" the childhood physical education class was besieged corresponding to the later class being besieged and humiliated
40:28" the childhood being
framed away corresponds to being framed away on the road 1:13:36" the light of rebirth, jumped and jumped The truth below, the strong soft light within a few seconds of jumping into reality, the completion of Jesus’ mission,
and 78m5s Scarlett’s line: Every end is a beginning.
This sentence appeared before BEN's own suicide, and it was actually the most obvious hint to BEN's suicide. However, it is hidden in the layers of misleading by the previous director, and the strength of the contrasting director's suggestion of death is too weak.
The whole film is actually a see-saw of the director's balance between misleading and anti-misleading, and it is also a process in which the director leads the audience into the labyrinth he arranged according to the established route.
Whether
Scarlett has the distinction between reality and illusion in Scarlett’s previous few times is more obvious.
At 32m57s and 47m57s, Scarlett's first appearance was just the image of the game. The second time she appeared after Ben took the medicine, she told the audience through the perspective of passing elderly people that Scarlett was fake.
At 59m30s and 62m25s, Scarlett actually appeared in stations and trains. The director makes Scarlett go from illusion to reality, and then blurs Scarlett's authenticity. This process can also be said to be the process of BEN's own subconscious, from obscurity to clarity, and finally fusion with his id.
But since Ben got off the car, the director deliberately obscured whether Scarlett was real.
When the two of them were in the water bar at 68m33s, there was only one cup in front of them. At this time, the audience may think that Scarlett is gone, and all Scarlett that appears after that are hallucinations. But at the end of this scene, Ben asked: "Don't you like to drink Fanta?"
At 78m21s, Scarlett and Ben's family were on the boat. Scarlett put a bottle of Fanta in front of him. . If the audience passes here and thinks Scarlett is real, then the director will have to laugh again.
At 88m24s, from the eyes of my mother, Scarlett was missing. This absence can mean that Scarlett has never existed. She was only communicating with her subconscious, and the final disappearance represented fusion. At that time, Ben was obviously more open than before. Then the Fanta that appeared earlier can be interpreted as being original, just poured into a cup and drank it. That said, it’s not that Scarlett helped Ben, but Ben’s self-awareness helped him. The sentence reflected in the last shot: When people see a horse, they always want to ride on the back of a horse, but can you tell me, Which horse wants to be ridden. In fact, this sentence points to Ben's self-salvation.
However, Scarlett's absence can also represent her existence. Because her appearance gave Ben hope, Ben’s autism became more serious after Scarlett’s departure. Because he never forgot about Scarlett, Ben could not accept Scarlett’s departure, so in his own consciousness, Scarlett was by his side forever.
About Lacan
Lacan the image analysis method Benpian outset embodied by this mirror to its own control. In the mirror analysis method, it is mentioned that children will get pleasure by controlling themselves in the mirror. And the autistic Ben, he is such a child.
Mother ---- ---- weak father absence
is also consistent with the basic conditions Lacanian this view.
Games and cameras are his way of observing the world, and the heart rate monitor on his wrist is his way of confirming himself. The mind is originally the most emotional and magical thing, but he can only observe through numbers. This also fits well with Lacan's point of view, treating one's body as another object, and consciousness gains pleasure by manipulating the body.
From the beginning, he talked to himself in the mirror, and in the camera, the equipment operation frame in the game appeared in the real world. It can also be seen that he was in the life by judging the operation equipment, and the boundary between the game and reality was directed by the director. It's completely broken. And Ben's life is also operated by himself, and then broken by the outside world.
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