This is a very intense first film by Nic Balthazar who also wrote first the play and then the novel called Nothing is All He Said and now directs this unbelievable good movie. A great achievement as you can hardly believe that he has never before made a film as this movie not only tells an extraordinary story, but also has extremely good technical specs. The story is based in true events and basically tells about Ben, a withdrawn autistic boy that dreams of taking revenge on the school bullies in the same effortless way he dispatches his enemies in a computer video game. But in my opinion is one of the most extraordinary ways to tell a story about school bullying in general and even if Ben is autistic, this movie makes for an unnerving if solid cinematic case against bullying in school. Most viewers and critics comment that the dialogue is extraordinary (with wordplays and puns) and I truly regret that I do not understand the movie language, as you will lose that part of the movie in translation. Just to give you an example if you say very fast the movie title the sound becomes the Dutch word benniks that means: I am nothing, which has a big relationship to the story. By the way BenX is also the avatar’s name in the video game Ben plays. But actually you will not notice it that much as the cinematography is so good with many handheld camera takes and many interweaved video game screens that since the very beginning until the very end ...
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