"Ben X" is a youth film about school bullying written and directed by Belgian director Nick Bashaza, a youthful cruel story of an autistic teenager.
Ben X Ben X (2007)
Director: Nick Bashaza
Screenwriter: Nick Bashaza
Starring: Greg Timmans, Laura Verlinden, Pol Goossen
Type: Drama
Official website: www.benx.be
Country/Region of Manufacture: Belgium/Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Release date: 2007-09-26
Recently, "Youth as a Teenager" has been shown in mainland China, which once again pushed the topic of campus bullying to the hot search list. In the school bullying incident, some children who seem to behave strangely are definitely the key targets of bullying. The protagonist of this film is a teenager with autism.
In the real world, Ben is a high school student with autism since childhood. He has been stigmatized and discriminated against by his peers because of his weird behavior.
In the virtual world, Ben is an 80-level large warrior in an online game called "Overlord". He walks with a female mage and travels the world with courage.
For Ben, the real world is full of danger and confusion. He tried to use the perspective of the virtual world to interpret his life, imagining that he was as invincible as he was in Overlord.
But for Ben, life is always entangled with all kinds of problems that are difficult to solve. The problem is always himself, but no one has ever told Ben how to solve the problem.
Ben, who has been insulted and discriminated against since he was a child, has never found a way to protect himself. He often fantasizes about himself as in the Overlord, wielding his sword to kill the demons who bullied him.
Until one day, the bad boy in the class took off Ben's pants in public and uploaded the video to the Internet. Not only did not a single person in the class stop it, but most of them were still cheering and applauding.
After trying to resist and being humiliated again without success, Ben became tired of life. In the game, he revealed to the female mage that he wanted to leave alone. The female mage persuaded him warmly and said that he would come to Ben tomorrow. city to meet him.
The next day Ben finally met the female mage who had been thinking about it at the train station, but unfortunately he still didn't have the courage to recognize her.
The female mage waited for a long time and no one appeared, so she got in the car and left. Ben also caught up with the train, but just sat next to the female mage without saying a word.
Ben helpless after getting off the train. Facing the departure of the female mage, he felt a sense of loss. Standing on the empty station, Ben decided to solve all the problems of his life in an extreme way.
There are many excellent films about autism, such as "Rain Man" starring Dustin Hoffman and "Autism Journey" starring Claire Danes are classics of this type of film. But in the past, films that showed autistic characters all told the stories of autistic patients from a third-party perspective.
"Ben X" is different. The narrator is Ben himself, and the narration perspective is Ben's subjective perspective. In other words, the world presented by the film is the world in the eyes of an autistic patient. This perspective is very special. I think autistic people live in their own independent world, and no one can fully understand their spiritual world, including those experts in psychiatry.
The world that this director deduces is of course the world of autistic patients that the director himself understands. Although we don't have the answer, I can feel the confusion and pain of autistic patients from the movie, which shows that the director grasps Ben's spiritual world, which is touching, at least it moved me.
As I mentioned earlier, school bullying is a hot issue that the whole society is concerned about. I have never heard of an ordinary child being bullied in my life circle, including from people I know in my social circle. The bullying incidents encountered in life are all relatively special children, and they don’t have to be as serious as this, such as children with alopecia areata, children with albinism, or even children in Anhui who only go to Northeast Primary School... as long as they are a little bit more ordinary. Children of different ages are very vulnerable to exclusion and isolation from children of the same age.
Such cases are from my childhood, and now I know the situation of my children's school and feel it firsthand. I'm not a practitioner in the education profession, and I don't understand psychology, but I don't think this phenomenon is isolated, such as a white kid in a school in a black neighborhood, and a black kid in a white school.
I don't know why people always reject people who are different from themselves, even if these people don't hinder themselves in any way, in fact, this situation does not only happen to children, it is also true in adult life.
I have been particularly impressed in my life by an autistic person who was a dozen years older than me and who should have been in his twenties when I was in elementary school. Everyone called him a fool. A group of children surrounded him and booed him. His expression was the same as that of Nakamoto in the movie. The role of Nakamoto in this movie was very successful. I think it is too similar. In fact, he was already an adult at that time, and it was absolutely fine for a group of teens to beat us, but he always showed a very scared expression, and I still remember the look of panic and panic.
Looking back now, as long as we don't provoke him, he just sat quietly and never disturbed anyone. At that time, I couldn't tell the difference between schizophrenia and autism at all, and they were both fools. But I know he definitely doesn't hit people, and it is for this reason that our group of children dares to bully him. At that time, the society paid far less attention to such vulnerable groups than it is now. He never went to school, and his family probably didn't take him to see a doctor.
Because although everyone thinks he is a bit stupid, he is basically harmless to humans and animals, so adults do not reject him, and they will come forward to stop them when they see children bullying him. For this reason, as long as there are adults in the yard chatting, playing cards, playing chess, etc., he sits quietly next to him, so that he will not be harassed by us children.
At that time, playing Chinese chess was very popular. Many uncles and uncles played under the street lights until midnight. No one knows when this idiot is interested in chess, only to find that he always waits until the end of the game before going home. As long as someone is playing chess, no matter how late his mother calls him to go home to sleep, he will ignore it. No one cares whether he sees it or not.
I can still remember the appearance of the chess set. It is a wooden box with a folded page in the middle. The inside of the box is carved on the wood with a knife, and then the chessboard is painted with paint. The chess set is kept under a big willow tree in the compound all day, and anyone who wants to play will find it. Sometimes when we are tired from running, we will pretend to put on a game, and the fool will sit and watch when we play chess.
At that time, one of our gang was from the Children's Palace chess team. If he came to play, no one would want to play with him. Basically, we would not have a chance. One day he may be so boring because he has no opponents, so he teased the fool and said he wanted to play a game with him. The fool didn't dare at first, we all wanted to watch the fun, and the fool was forced to sit down.
I can recall the details of that day very clearly now. At first, the chess team of the Children's Palace, let the fools lose quickly, and then let one chess fail, and then let another horse fail, and finally they did not open for an afternoon. . From the afternoon to the evening, a group of adults and children surrounded the chessboard, and none of them played silently.
That night, the uncle, who liked to play chess after dinner, waited beside the chessboard, waiting for the fool to come out of the house. I didn't like chess at that time. I knew that the horses were walking on the day, and the elephants were walking on the fields. It was a wheel battle. Five or six gentlemen took turns to play, and the results were better than in the afternoon. If they could win a game or two, after all, they lost more and won less, and the fool became the well-deserved champion.
At that time, my family lived in the dormitory area of a large-scale subordinate enterprise, and the community of more than 100,000 people were all comrades from a factory. The news of a foolish chess master in our compound spread like wildfire. Every night, there would always be a few who came here to try it out. At that time, it became a regular project in the compound. A fool can't win everything. When a master kills him, those who win chess rarely talk much. Usually, after winning a few games, they light a cigarette for the fool, and the two of them sit for a while and leave without saying anything. On the contrary, Jijiwaiwai, who lost chess, summed up and asked for another game. There are still several waiting in the back. Generally, no one who loses is willing to watch again, and those who win are also unwilling to play more.
Since then, the children in our courtyard have rarely bullied this fool again. Maybe children have always had an innate awe for the strong, no matter whether this strength is physical or intellectual. Especially the kid from the chess team, when he saw outside kids bullying him, he would jump out and scold them, to the effect that the speed of your head can catch up with half of the fools, it's not bad, don't pretend to be a grandson here. far.
It's been like this for a while, certainly not for long. One day I didn't know where to go, and when I came back, another child told me that the fool was crazy. It was said that he went crazy by playing chess, smashed the wooden chessboard into pieces, threw the chess pieces all over the courtyard, and then ran away screaming.
Later, my family moved about half a year later, and I didn't see the fool come out to play chess again before moving out. It wasn't until more than ten years later that I went to work, and when I went to the place where my hukou was registered, I saw that fool again. He should have been in his forties by then, looking older than normal, and basking in the sun with a bunch of old men and women.
I passed by on my bicycle and saw him turn back again. After I got off the bike, he recognized me, smiled at me, and handed me a bench. I sat next to him and gave him a few cigarettes. I wanted to say sorry to him for bullying him when I was a child. There were other people around, and I was afraid that he would not understand and finally could not say it. The two of us just smoked and sat quietly. Almost half an hour.
When I left, I saw that he was smoking low-quality cigarettes called Jiajiale for a few cents, so I went to the nearby small shop and bought one. When I handed it to him, he waved his hand and said nothing. I didn't know what to say. I can only say that it is not expensive for you to take it. When he took the cigarette, he sat on the bench and raised his head, and smiled at me again. That was the last time I saw that fool, and now the only clear impression I have of this person is that he raised his head, and his wrinkled face in the sun burst into a naive smile.
Looking back now, I'm very glad that I had this opportunity to meet him again when I was an adult. The only regret is that I didn't say sorry to him. I think he can understand now.
Perhaps for autistic people, letting them live in their own world, and we try not to disturb them, is the greatest help to them.
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