You start watching the film and from the very first frames to the very end it is impossible to take off the screen.
Stunning play by Greg Timmermans, whose hero suffers from one of the forms of autism.
For the protagonist, Ben, there are two worlds. One world of a virtual game, where he is a fearless warrior, a knight, and has not yet invented such obstacles and obstacles that he can not afford. The other world is reality... the reality is normal for all of us, but a real hell for Ben. There is a school and there are classmates. Children are known to be incredibly cruel creatures. Physical abuse, ridicule, moral bullying, public humiliation Ben receives full and daily. Emotions are overflowing when you observe the cruelty of classmates, indifference and frank connivance of the school administration.
It is wrong to label people living in a world that is not understandable to us. Yes, they are different, they are special, they are different from us ... from us, ordinary, sometimes very mediocre, but incredibly arrogant, taking on such a burden of responsibility that they cannot bear. So the big question is which of these two categories is the most normal.
Powerful movie. It's hard to watch. It hurts to watch. But it's impossible to break away...
Some time ago, in an international English course, I met a 19-year-old girl from Denmark with Asperger’s Syndrome. We've been chatting with her over the Internet for almost four years. Martha told me a lot in emails about her life. Including a suicide attempt, which occurred to her at the age of 16, when she cut her wrists in the bathroom, but thanks to her father, who returned from work, she survived. How difficult it was for her to live with her parents and brother. She had almost no friends at school. About the sheer amount of medication she had to take in order to become "emotionally interacting" with others - that's how I roughly translated her expression "emotionally interactive". I remember her calling me on the phone (only ever) and almost crying about the doctor forcing her to cancel some of the drugs because they put too much strain on her heart. And how hard it will be for her now, because without these drugs she can not normally study in college and learn Latin, very quickly gets tired and forgets the usual things. Letters from Martha have always been small in volume, with a minimum of adjectives, but very specific. She carefully answered all my questions, at least a little, but touched on all the topics that I touched on in my letter. Honestly, it looked like you were texting a schoolboy, not someone who learns to read and write correctly, but someone who learns to respond to your messages, to be “emotionally interactive.” We could see how difficult it is to communicate with her and how necessary it is. At the moment when we stopped correspondence, her condition was relatively stable, and she even began to date a guy, but I’m not sure that her life is now all right.
Why did I write such a long introduction? The first two-thirds of Nick Balthazar’s film seemed to me very realistic and perfectly reflective of the inner and outer world of young people suffering from various forms of autism. It is clear that being a feature film, "Ben X" is not without a certain amount of fiction - especially since Balthazar, along with autism, touches on the theme of teenage cruelty against those who are "not like everyone else." And this is also shown convincingly and really scary, as in the best examples of films on this topic - "Class", "Stuffed" and so on.
The main character of the film Ben feels much more comfortable in a computer game than in real life, where he is waiting for misunderstanding, ridicule, humiliation, harassment. The only way to find a friend and love for him is virtual reality. There he is understood, there he is not laughed at, there he even has his own "healer" (healer), which is able not only to cure, but to find words that give strength to live.
In real life, he is an outcast and a joke in the eyes of most people. At best, they just prefer to avoid it, at worst they are smothered. He is a constant subject of observation by doctors, he tries to help the teacher adapt, he can find a couple of sympathetic students and his mother still loves him. But that's all.
This is the initial data and the director had a choice. Or demonstrate that, despite all the difficulties of life, people with Asperger’s syndrome are able to successfully interact with the outside world, find friends and loved ones, that such people have their own human dignity and can earn respect, like other members of society. Or to show that people like Ben are doomed and will not be able to escape the constant fate of outcasts. Or come up with something new and unusual.
Instead, Balthazar preferred thrash. That "unconscionable nonsense" that begins in the film after the scene when Ben comes out of the car in which he was driving with Scarlight, even difficult to convey in words. It seems that the director at this moment was replaced, or he ran out of all sorts of ideas, or he simply stupidly ceased to understand that he was shooting and began feverishly reviewing dozens of other paintings, pulling out of them individual fragments so that in the end the audience found as many duty stamps as possible.
I just want to say, ‘Why?’ Why scrupulously open the most unsightly aspects of the life of the main character with a scalpel? Why show the audience naked all the sick gut as it is? Why was there a touching story of a young autistic man falling in love with Scarlight, from which you could make a masterpiece?
To say to everyone, “Repent, children, Ben is good, for Christ has commanded us to love every neighbor.” To demonstrate how an autistic person suddenly decided to expose human vices and expose his pain and suffering to as many people as possible, what is unnatural for people like Ben?
Balthazar destroyed with his stupid, religiously sweet ending any individuality of his hero, devalued and simplified to the level of cheap snot melodrama the tragedy of his relationship with the outside world and his beloved girl. Having not resolved a single conflict, he came up with a fairy tale in which there is no gram of plausibility and no gram of sympathy for the main character and his fate.
Despite Ben’s smiling face, at the end of the film, instead of a living person, we see a clinical idiot who, from a real, hard but real life, was isolated in a virtual reality invented by the director and forced to play by someone else’s rules. This is not the Ben who told us the story of his life and who dared to come on his first date. And it's not about autism anymore. The final scenes of the film are not a victory for the likes of Ben, but their defeat. When the only way to reach out to others is to appeal to Christ, it’s a demonstration that the filmmakers simply don’t know what to do about it. And looking at it is absolutely impossible.
Ben at the table cuts the toast into two halves. He finds it difficult to talk about simple things even with his own mother, so she talks for two. Ben's on the table with his pants down. It is aimed at objective camera phones, around a bunch of classmates, their faces express sincere delight. The teacher's desk. Ben at the bus stop - filming people kissing, this is necessary in order to be able to imitate this in the future. Ben walks around the school campus - trying to be invisible, bumps into everyone he can. Ben is playing his favorite computer game. She spends most of her time and feels most comfortable. Ben has Asperger's syndrome.
Ben X is a vivid illustration of what Morgan Spurlock was thinking in The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. If you need money to shoot, you'll probably find someone who can help. But how, taking funds and signing contracts, to remain yourself and as carefully as possible to preserve the original plan? Nick Balthazar and his partners solve this dilemma with varying success throughout the film, and they manage to make big decisions much better than detailed ones.
Much of the film is tied to the favorite, in the plot, the computer game of the hero - a fantasy MMORPG from the middle of zero called "Archlord". It's not just a hobby or even a strong passion. The main character, Ben, leads a double life and, apparently, because of his illness, activities in the real world, largely builds through gamer decisions. Daily hygiene – create or edit an avatar. Insert headphones - to obscure foreign noise by others, more friendly. Almost everything that happens to him in life, Ben in the imagination relates to the game, which allows the filmmakers to play with the shape of their offspring. And now the frame with two hooligans beating the main character turns into a frame where two huge ogres beat a small character, obviously having different game features than physical strength.
More than once or two real events are transformed into game moments. More than once or twice next to the main character, as it were, plaques with tools from your favorite multiplayer role-playing game will pop up, which will help make a particular choice. Placement product? What a brazen, but hell, something would help to understand the hero better than such a move. But when it comes to roughness - a detailed plan of the icon of the game that the hero clicks on, the wild-sized poster with her name above the bed, the monologue of one of the heroines in which she pronounces the names of captured locations in order to prove to Ben that he can do something in life - then the film turns into a kind of advertising banner. That, however, is not difficult to forgive, although the sediment will still remain.
The third layer of the picture, in addition to what happens to the hero in reality and what happens in his mind - excerpts of the documentary filming which takes place in the film itself. His characters, Ben’s teachers and family, give a kind of outside view of what is happening, of what Ben is to them and to the world. Fragments of these interviews are mixed with the rest of the action. This curious decision makes Ben X more than just a psychological or social drama. To take a character who had a real prototype, and to give the opportunity to consider it from three different angles, including directly consciousness, is, if you will, hyper-pseudo-documentary.
It's because you have to pee. A film about a strange single guy can no longer be drawn on banal bullying from peers, difficulty understanding reality and gambling addiction. We need something more. We need hyperbole, cooler. You need a disease - Asperger's syndrome, due to the specifics, is perfect. Just mentioning it is not enough - you need to milk to the last drop. And you definitely need some performance, the realism of which will be debated for a long time. Fictional friends can not get rid of - well, let them be connected with virtual reality. Nick Balthazar understands this very well. Ben X is a true twenty-first-century film, in the best or worst sense of the word, the viewer will decide, depending on his own views on how he wants to see the movie.
The roles of the mentally ill pose to the actors, perhaps, the most difficult tasks. In the process of working on them, you can choose two ways: either directly observe people suffering from the “necessary” actor’s ailment, as Dustin Hoffman did while working on the image of an autistic for Rain Man. Or rely on the director: here the result can be both relatively acceptable (the work of the young DiCaprio in What Eats Gilbert Grape) and frankly caricatured (Radio). As the old saying goes, Tertium non datur. The performer of the title role in the film “Ben X”, apparently, chose the second option and largely lost. His generally sympathetic portrayal of an introverted fan of computer games suffers from several significant drawbacks. On the one hand, an eclectic set of various mental disorders was obtained. Here you and the declared Asperger's syndrome, and autism, and schizophrenia. At the same time, the severity of the disease is eclectic: Ben X is more or less socialized - according to the plot, he studies in an ordinary school, and is considered a successful student there, then absolutely uncontacted (and it becomes unclear how he studies at school), then suffers from hallucinations, then outbursts of rage.
This confusion leads to the lack of internal logic of the image. It may be foolish to demand logic when it comes to the mentally ill. However, it is the autistic who is declared, and their behavior patterns are just predictable: in fact, one of the symptoms of atism is strict adherence to a kind of “day routine”, and the stronger the form of the disease, the more closed in the shell of the selected patterns of behavior of the patient. In the case of Ben X, the severity of the disease varies - here the plot clearly controls the actions of the hero. Therefore, in the plot of important places, he either shows an extreme degree of antisociality, for example, reacts negatively even to the touch of his parents, or decides to travel by rail for Skylight - a computer game partner who does not know Ben in the face and invited him on a blind date - but can not talk to her (literally - he cannot say a word, even introduce himself - he remains unrecognized, "just a fellow traveler"). In the latter case, the artificiality is especially striking: having decided on a trip, the hero would be able to squeeze at least a word out of himself, otherwise he would not go anywhere. Within the framework of one (!) episode, the disease manifests itself in various extreme forms. It is impossible to find any other explanation, except “it is necessary according to the plot”, which in general cannot go to the director and screenwriter.
The film poses many interesting questions (here are the problems of self-identification, finding oneself in society, etc.), points to current problems (violence in school is a problem, apparently, from the category of “eternal”). The feeling that the declared timekeeping could fit more, does not leave until the end of the viewing. The feeling is certainly extremely subjective, and we do not include it in the list of advantages or disadvantages of the tape.
“Everything I say is true. Even if I say nothing at all.” Ben believes in his words, in himself more than his classmates and even adults believe in themselves. He is sincere, kind, honest, fair, and therefore intelligent.
In the reality of the game, he knows exactly what he is doing, what he is achieving, and he knows what he will achieve. In the reality of life, he can only learn to follow people, look at them and avoid them. Here he is insecure, because he does not understand what they want from him, and what their words are.
He does not know how and what the mechanism of interaction within society is, but he sees, feels, hears and experiences everything.
He's afraid of the space of this world, he's not protected, and how can he be protected if this world isn't made for units like Ben? Its face is erased: reality, play - what is here, what is there. For ordinary people here, for strategists there. What can give careless, licentious, drowned here, what gives the beautiful, legitimate, venerable there?
No matter how much he thinks he does, no matter what he does, he is unique and this must be accepted by society, and as soon as possible. You lose culture, you lose our truth, the situation has gone too far.
“I am the one who is always wrong. No one has ever been able to explain to me what is right.” These are far-fetched rules that people just follow because we have to, because we are disciplined, because we live in a highly developed society. What does all this mean? Nothing but chaos.
Ben attracts the flawed, beaten-up ones to him, and they try to pull him along, but he knows his nature, even if he avoids it. The high-frequency nature of Ben, the nature of the elect.
What does society offer? Whatever. What can I do? What do you do in such a society? If we don't need each other, who needs us? As long as we each have what we have in the world.
“I wanted my son to go to general school, and my wife, my ex-wife, we were fighting over it, but he was smarter, much smarter than his peers, ten times smarter.” This is a misunderstanding of a person, a misunderstanding of the family, no understanding of the microsociety, no understanding of the macrosociety, no understanding of the country, part and the whole world.
Throughout the film, a dialogue of religion, rather faith, is shown. Faith in reunion, in kindness, in reversibility, in acceptance and love.
Why do many of us not want to accept the fact that we are different, that the other person is not you, that he thinks, lives, experiences, acts in the context of individual beingness?
Claiming the peace of another person, we hasten to assert ourselves in our insolvency.
“Children like him have no chance, they are easy prey.” Why not? Got it! Develop society, explain, show, lay, build, live together. Adults need to change to stop debauchery among young people.
He understands, he understands everything that is happening, that it is impossible, he is ashamed. He lives, he lives in his world, and he has it. People are so angry if they have peace. Do you?
He's overly sensitive, he's sensitive, emotionally disturbed, a mild form of psychosis, a bit stressed, like his mom. We can get a closer look at it. "Close to what?" Many words, many conclusions, much learned and impermanent, much everything and no freedom, no soul.
' . . Suddenly they knew what was wrong with me. Brain disease. Asperger's syndrome. One form of autism, or I have autism. Whatever we do, do not apply, we offer ourselves, pity ourselves, very narrowly and blasphemously for another organism.
He spent 12 years studying, but never learned to leave his nose alone. Demonstrative! When you dig and dig other people, you need to dig yourself.
Beautifully said, it does not mean to be responsible in your actions. And why is Ben's life illusory? Each person builds his own illusions, who is in what diametricality. And where is normal life for each individual. These are the parts that don't come together in normal people. Label.
“It’s a volcano, you never know when it’s going to erupt, a time bomb living among us: “Often the reaction comes much later than the cause.” The volcano erupts under the onslaught of its natural structure. People make bombs. There are both of us. We need to create conditions in which we will be conscious, attentive, kind.
" . If we continue to live like before, we will lose this game. And there will be an end game'
He tries to understand, accept the rules of the game here, but he does not understand, can not dress what is not his nature: he is constant in his qualities, human, few data.
Any end can be a beginning.
" . . I had to learn a lot, but I forgot to learn the most important thing – to lie, to lie. And he, for a very brief moment, changes his coin, for the coin of those who consumed him, and seemingly won. Speak and act in their language to leave and accept their nature of the final, completed act.
Man is happy in his sense of discovery, revelation, love, dignity, deity.
Listen and hear! We listen and think we hear, we see, and we think we have seen, we love, and we think we are loved. Not everything we hear needs to be heard. We make choices. It's ours, it's ours. And no more than each individual; parts. Can we put it together?
My father once told me about a philosophical book called ' Human Society as a Problem'. To which I replied: ' Human society is another problem!'.
In fact, we'll take Ben. A quiet, humble, inconspicuous man. He lives by himself, does not touch anyone, does no harm to anyone. How many people are there? Yes, as much as you like - they are from those whom society contemptuously calls ' nerds', ' nerds' and ' losers'. They are not necessarily autistic, but society is extremely aggressive towards them. It seems that society is a kind of collective mind, and extremely aggressive towards everything that somehow does not fit into its ' concept'. Like a pack of wolves or a swarm of predatory insects - like carnivorous African ants, destroying everything in their path.
Those who think that autistic people live well, but those around them are bad, are fundamentally wrong. Episodes of self-aggression, such as hitting your head against a wall, bruised hands, suicide attempts, are manifestations of a subconscious dislike for yourself-damaged, living in a normal, but so complex and incomprehensible world. Only who needs treatment: them or their environment?
The society will answer: ' They are to blame for their problems, not us' Recently, there has been a tendency for society to move away from responsibility for individual individuals. That is, those whom we hate simply do not meet our subjective standards – and we ourselves (society) are not responsible for the consequences. This is a kind of infantilism on the scale of the whole society.
It was said that it is a pity that the problem of gambling is not described. And for me, the problem is not those who go headlong into virtual worlds, but in that aggressive environment, because of which the pursuit of goblins and romances with virtual princesses become more interesting to a person than real relationships with real people.
I never understood the girl. Whether it's a figment of Ben's imagination, or a hallucination, or some incomprehensible symbol. If the second - then his condition cannot be Asperger's syndrome, in which hallucinations and delirium do not happen (but it happens with schizophrenia).
The end of the film is extremely positive. The ideal of life for an autistic person is simple - in the circle of understanding people, away from the pressing and aggressive society, in the lap of nature. Too positive for real life...
I've had a lot of interactions with autistic people. And the more I got to know them, the more the 'normal' and 'normal' people around me seemed somewhat flawed and primitive. Autistic, not able to lie, trick, manipulate people, possessing amazing knowledge in various fields of science and art, childishly naive, but appreciating relationships with people more than any ' normal' - are not worthy people?
'No', the public will respond. ' They don’t know how to communicate, live as reclusives, arrange tantrums and mutter about themselves all the time. In short, inadequate and idiots.' Is society worthy of the attention of these people, if it looks in the eyes, herd instinct and adherence to unwritten social rules values above deep professional knowledge, reliability and decency?
Those who wrote here that autistic people are insensitive and aggressive - learn to match, gentlemen. At least the article from ' Wikipedia' about Asperger's syndrome to begin with. Autistic people are able to experience many emotions, including positive and very strong ones, but they do not always adequately recognize and display them. And simple emotions like joy, sadness, surprise recognize very well.
By the way, the only girl in my life who I have never felt negative emotions for had Asperger’s syndrome. I've had a few girlfriends since then - but this girl's phone is still on my contact list, and there's still a picture of her and our chat correspondence on the computer. And she was the only girl who, compared to the others, was just an angel, the only one I understood without words.
Instead of concluding, I would like to quote the notorious Einstein:
39 There are two infinities in the world: the universe and human stupidity. However, I am not sure about the universe.39
Being an outcast. To be different. Single. Frick. A Martian.
Call it whatever you want. But if you are a full-fledged member of society, you know that such people are everywhere, and they are not to blame for their unusualness.
For me, this film is not about a guy with Asperger’s syndrome, but about the people around him. A mother who tried hard to “cure” her son. A father who didn’t realize his child was just different. About young people who cannot accept someone different from themselves.
Sometimes it seems to me that perhaps it is not people like Ben X who are different from us, but we are different from them.
Who is to blame for such a situation? Probably no one. That's life. Inside each of us there is a point about non-standard people.
In the case of Ben, it is partly the parents who are trying in vain to cure the incurable, partly classmates with absolutely brutal concepts of life, and partly Ben himself, who simply cannot fight for himself.
What does this film teach you?
Be tolerant. People who are different than you.
Be kind to helpless people.
Be careful, and do not inadvertently touch the feelings of an already hypersensitive person.
And be grateful for the fact that you did not find yourself in the shoes of a person with autism.
Think about what you do and what you say to each other.
Even ordinary people get hurt. And special is millions of times more painful...
To be different. Being an outcast and a white sheep. Autism is a pathology that destroys a person’s life, or something more that is not available and yet has no explanation?
The main character of the film suffers from autism. Because of this, he is subjected to ridicule and ridicule from classmates who believe that all their actions will go unpunished. And indeed, what can a guy do to them who cannot adequately respond to his abusers because his thinking is different from the thinking of his peers?
The film looks on one breath, thanks to the realism and uninterrupted plot, the wonderful play of the actors and the original denouement of the plot.
This movie is for those who want to understand people who are different from the average inhabitants of our planet. Touch the mysteries of the psyche and behavior, the mysteries of thoughts and feelings. The film causes a storm of emotions: from admiration to sadness and pain for those who are not like everyone else. The other is one, that's the meaning of Ben X.
"Ben X" raised and showed one of the most important issues - the problem of empathy and the attitude of ordinary people to people with mental or physical disabilities. In this film, Ben’s real life, his game and inner worlds are masterfully mixed. It shows his daily life and every painful minute that he has to endure because of his illness.
His classmates considered Ben "weird," even "freak." Here is one of the main lines of the film - who really is the "freak"? He who through no fault of his own should bear a heavy burden, or he who dares to mock him? The cruelty of peers and inaction, even indifference, of others – this is what Ben receives from the world.
This film is capable of touching what is human in everyone. Now, in a situation like Ben’s, you will no longer want to remain silent and stand aside, but to protect the weak, to lend him a helping hand. We need courage and compassion.
In general, it is quite interesting to watch the spread of ideas in cinema: it was worth one picture on a peculiar topic to collect a lot of awards at prestigious film festivals, and how mushrooms appear after the rain imitators.
But imitators are also different: talentless (like Talk to Stewart), creative ("Ben X and Tracy Pieces) and variations on the theme ("Let Me In), which perform with varying success.
“Ben X” is distinguished at least by its unusual visual range, but here is everything else “classic genre”: evil classmates, misunderstanding mother, fictional friends. Having cut off all possible branches and trying to cook a compote of fruits, the authors sweetened the final dish, the movie is false, contrived, and somehow quite secondary.
I’m not an insensitive scumbag: I worried about Hoffman’s character in Rain Man, I sympathized with a strange couple in Let Me In, and even the benchmark “Class” evoked some emotions. Here the adventures of an autistic in the virtual world did not hurt, flying past and leaving in bewilderment.
Teenage drama is a distinct genre in cinema, especially when made by European producers. This picture came to us from Belgium. This film reminds me a lot of the movie "Class", which is also, by the way, European, but a little further north, from Estonia. There, too, everyone mocked one person who, although not sick, could not show himself as a full-fledged personality and because of this, everyone mocked him. Little, but similar, in this movie. Ben goes to school, and after class, someone pulls his pants off, and they film it. Naturally, he is furious, hitting the windows. And so on. As in any teenage drama, there are “villains”, in this case, two typical bullies who are the instigators of mocking poor Ben. But that's just one of his worlds. The other is the beautiful world in the game. There he can do anything, he's a hero, and when he has to step out of the game into the real world, he goes to the mirror and thinks, "Why is this all?" This is really brilliant. All the films I sort of divide into three groups. The first is the pop movies, which cut a huge box office around the world, but which, for the most part, are absolutely nothing special. The second group is the festival film. Always heavy, having a large semantic load, which for most viewers is not understood. And the third group is all the other films. They stand in the middle between the first two groups. Often they get all sorts of Oscars and so on. This film, I would take with great stretch to the second group. Still, there is a certain semantic load here, and the film, one hundred percent, is not mass. I used to be a player myself. Of course not as avid as Ben. I have never hated MMORPGs. I didn't like games without genre. But it's not just that. Any game can be addictive. Or maybe there's no disease. Maybe Ben just invented everything, or just for him there is no line between the real world and the world of ArchLord, and what kind of world he considers real for himself. Perhaps where he feels good... By the way, I really liked the moments when, for example, Ben is walking down the street, and in order to get a phone, for example, the corresponding icon appears in the upper left corner, the mouse cursor clicks on the phone, and he pulls it out of his pocket, and this applies to everything. Very well designed. What does Balthazar have to say with this film? That all games are evil, or that games are played only by people who do not see themselves in the real world, who seek salvation in video games? Perhaps, but I still think that games are a minor character in the film (although they take up half the screen time), and the main theme is still violence in society. Original
Teenage drama is a distinct genre in cinema, especially when made by European producers. This picture came to us from Belgium. This film reminds me a lot of the movie "Class", which is also, by the way, European, but a little further north, from Estonia. There, too, everyone mocked one person who, although not sick, could not show himself as a full-fledged personality and because of this, everyone mocked him. Little, but similar, in this movie. Ben goes to school, and after class, someone pulls his pants off, and they film it. Naturally, he is furious, hitting the windows. And so on. As in any teenage drama, there are “villains”, in this case, two typical bullies who are the instigators of mocking poor Ben. But that's just one of his worlds. The other is the beautiful world in the game. There he can do anything, he's a hero, and when he has to step out of the game into the real world, he goes to the mirror and thinks, "Why is this all?" This is really brilliant. All the films I sort of divide into three groups. The first is the pop movies, which cut a huge box office around the world, but which, for the most part, are absolutely nothing special. The second group is the festival film. Always heavy, having a large semantic load, which for most viewers is not understood. And the third group is all the other films. They stand in the middle between the first two groups. Often they get all sorts of Oscars and so on. This film, I would take with great stretch to the second group. Still, there is a certain semantic load here, and the film, one hundred percent, is not mass. I used to be a player myself. Of course not as avid as Ben. I have never hated MMORPGs. I didn't like games without genre. But it's not just that. Any game can be addictive. Or maybe there's no disease. Maybe Ben just invented everything, or just for him there is no line between the real world and the world of ArchLord, and what kind of world he considers real for himself. Perhaps where he feels good... By the way, I really liked the moments when, for example, Ben is walking down the street, and in order to get a phone, for example, the corresponding icon appears in the upper left corner, the mouse cursor clicks on the phone, and he pulls it out of his pocket, and this applies to everything. Very well designed. What does Balthazar have to say with this film? That all games are evil, or that games are played only by people who do not see themselves in the real world, who seek salvation in video games? Perhaps, but I still think that games are a minor character in the film (although they take up half the screen time), and the main theme is still violence in society. Original