Aspy movie : Benx, made in belgium

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if you have the chance to watch it do it , it is about a boy who has asp and it is based on real life : in real life he killed himself because he was teased to the death at school. The editor nick baltasar has won several prices with the movie.The game the boy plays is called archlord

he depicts his bullies as orcs

english website
http://www.benx.be/eng/defilm.asp

movie is though in dutch but if it is released truout europe it is or dubbed or subtitled

hey victor,
i must have been on another planet
i never heard of this movie, is it still in the cinema then?

(ps, i do live in a little isolated village in the french part of the country, but my origin is flemish)


welcome to wp !

maybe in brussels but they dont going to release it in the french part of the country. It is going to be released in France or get the dvd

i study in brussels, will check it out,
where are you from?

I read a book by Nick Balthazar, “Niets was alles wat hij zei” (“Nothing was all he said”). It is a flemish book (it is written in the belgian dialect of Dutch); quite short. But a nice story with a twist at the end.

This film seems based on that book.

I put it on my watchlist, since I am fluent in Dutch anyway

Halle (8 min drive with the train from brussels)

i got the book too, read it like a rollercoaster ; nice read
The book i got got the script of the theatre piece that was also made . the theather piece was called 'niets" ('nothing') based on the name 'zero' = benx = ben niets = je suis rien

Another topic about the same film:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp1294478.html

Maybe someone could merge the topics?

i liked the movie much
thanks for sharing it !

np , he thanks to the one who linked the other topic


i dont see orcs in the streets or see warcraft like images when i walk in the street (because i play wow and not archlord like the asp dude from the movie), i got bullied too the same way like him in the class with the 'shooting paperprops' but most i was laughed at when i was flapping
i start to game only later after my school peroid sofar the comparison with him stopped there but i play loads on pc , have a ps2 and a xbox (most used it for dvd player). The first computer i had was a cpc 1624 schneider with an awfull os (/cpm) when i turned 16 (it was a choice between a computer or a ring by that time the schneider was the only homecomputer there existed - 1985)
my first pc was in 1992ish (my current system is newer and is from a few years back)

i did speak up when i was bullied i wasnt a person who said nothing. When i spoke up in class i was laught about etc, kicked against the chair, excluded from games etc

that gave me more troubles because the bullies went harder on me because i spoke about them.He went earlier then me to see a specialist so it is different

so his story is like mine but he got the worse because his parents broke up and mine didnt (my father died but never accepted his son had a problem for him i was lazy)

That looks like a really interesting film.
Of course, the US seldom seems to get any good films.
Maybe I can view the UK release.

nick (the producer) is working with the americans to try to make a remake of benx for the american public , it did show in the festival of montreal when it was chosen as favorite but dont know of any releases in the us or in uk. Only know now they started to bring it out in France

benx dvd been provided with the paper 'de morgen' on 19/04/2008 (next week saterday) in belgium

thanks victor !

my husband(not AS) noticed that the film often focusses on details, like hair, or shoes, fingers, hands, the floor etc
i had not noticed this explicitly but thought the film had a very 'natural feel'
not only on the level of the photography, but the incidents, the reactions of the people, ben's thoughts, etc


i'd like to know more about the movie, is the director so familiar with the asperger's syndrom, or someone with whom he worked?
and the main character?

(i read that the mother has an autistic son in real life)

the director got the idea from something that happend in real life about a kid who was bullied such that he threw himself off the castlewalls of the castle in Gent

the collector item dvd is out now with comments of the director and lots of bonusses (also the game they used for the movie)

with morgen and the dvd there was a 5 euro discount coupon and you could swap the dvd and the coupon for the collector dvd in any shop that was listed on the coupon

Cool! I didnt notice that, but i just LOVED the movie!