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* HollywoodPsych: The entire movie is built around this trope, showing how patients with Asperger's supposedly can't function without a minute-to-minute schedule, have extremely vivid hallucinations, are incapable of something as simple as taking a train, and can't interact with other human beings at all. The film was inaccurately praised for its "accuracy".
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* HollywoodPsych: HollywoodAutism: The entire movie is built around this trope, showing how patients with Asperger's supposedly can't function without a minute-to-minute schedule, have extremely vivid hallucinations, are incapable of something as simple as taking a train, and can't interact with other human beings at all. The Somehow, the film was inaccurately praised for its "accuracy".
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* AdultsAreUseless: Played with. Various adults speculate about how there was nothing they could do about Ben [[spoiler: although Ben's parents help him with his faked suicide attempt]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: Arguably, the 'death cross' that Ben constructs later on in the movie. Hint: [[spoiler: It doesn't exactly work]]
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Arguably, the 'death cross' that Ben constructs later on in the movie. Hint: [[spoiler: It doesn't exactlywork]]work]].
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* ImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler: In the Scarlite that seemingly meets Ben in person, as it's revealed at the end of the movie]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Scarlite after she pulls him back from jumping in front of a train. [[spoiler: Subverted, in that she doesn't actually exist except in his head]]
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: Ben [[spoiler: crafts a real-life version of Arch Lord's 'death cross', and tries to defend himself against his tormentors when they corner him again and take his cellphone. It doesn't work because he does not actually know how to wield a knife.]]
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: Ben [[spoiler: crafts a real-life version of Arch Lord's ArchLord's 'death cross', and tries to defend himself against his tormentors when they corner him again and take his cellphone. It doesn't work because he does not actually know how to wield a knife.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The real Scarlite. We last see her looking at Ben after he gets off the train and she stays on. It isn't established whether either she tried to get in contact with him again or he tried to get in contact with her through the game]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The real Scarlite. We last see her looking at Ben after he gets off the train and she stays on. It isn't established whether either she tried to get in contact with him again or he tried to get in contact with her through the game]]game]].
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A Belgian film from 2007 about a teenager with [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome Aspergers syndrome]] who has some difficulties dealing with the world and is tormented by his classmates. He seeks solace in an MMORPG, [=ArchLord=], where he has a friend, Scarlite. After a particularly nasty bit of bullying, Ben considers suicide.
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A Belgian film from 2007 about a teenager with [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome Aspergers syndrome]] UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome who has some difficulties dealing with the world and is tormented by his classmates. He seeks solace in an MMORPG, [=ArchLord=], where he has a friend, Scarlite. After a particularly nasty bit of bullying, Ben considers suicide.
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* HollywoodPsych: The entire movie is built around this trope, showing how patients with Asperger's supposedly can't function without a minute-to-minute schedule, have extremely vivid hallucinations, are incapable of something as simple as taking a train, and can't interact with other human beings at all. The film was inaccurately praised for its accuracy."accuracy".
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The real Scarlite. We last see her looking at Ben after he gets off the train and she stays on. It isn't established whether either she tried to get in contact with him again or he tried to get in contact with her through the game]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The real Scarlite. We last see her looking at Ben after he gets off the train and she stays on. It isn't established whether either she tried to get in contact with him again or he tried to get in contact with her through the game]]game]]
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* ForeignLanguageRemake: Erik Leijonborg directed a swedish-language remake in 2013 called ''[=IRL=]''.
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A Belgian film from 2007 about an a teenager with [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome Aspergers syndrome]] who has some difficulties dealing with the world and is tormented by his classmates. He seeks solace in an MMORPG, [=ArchLord=], where he has a friend, Scarlite. After a particularly nasty bit of bullying, Ben considers suicide.
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* DawsonCasting: While Ben is in one of his last years of secondary school, the actor playing him, Greg Timmermans, was 27 when the film was shot.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The real Scarlite. We last see her looking at Ben after he gets off the train and she stays on. It isn't established whether either she tried to get in contact with him again or he tried to get in contact with her through the game]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The real Scarlite. We last see her looking at Ben after he gets off the train and she stays on. It isn't established whether either she tried to get in contact with him again or he tried to get in contact with her through the game]]
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Scarlite after she pulls him back from jumping in front of a train. [[spoiler: Subverted, in that she doesn't actually exist except in his head]]
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* MushroomSamba: The two bullies forcefeed Ben a drug (possibly ecstasy) which causes him to hallucinate Scarlite and act uncontrollably manic. It is very much not played for laughs.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Played with. Various adults speculate about how there was nothing they could do about Ben [[spoiler: although Ben's parents help him with his faked suicide attempt]]
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* MeaningfulRename: BenX, when pronounced in Dutch, sounds the like "Ben niks", which means "Am nothing".
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A Belgian film from 2007 about an teenager with [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome Aspergers syndrome]] who has some difficulties dealing with the world and is tormented by his classmates. He seeks solace in an MMORPG, [=ArchLord=], where he has a friend, Scarlite. After a particularly nasty bit of bullying, Ben considers suicide.
While not a darling of Dutch-language critics, the film did please the public, won some international prizes, and was the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar (it did not get a nomination).
The film was written and directed by Nic Balthazar, a Belgian presenter. It's based on a book and play, ''Niets was alles wat hij zei'', also written by Nic Balthazar. It was based on the story of a Belgian teenager with Aspergers.
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!!Tropes:
* AdultsAreUseless: Played with.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Arguably, the 'death cross' that Ben constructs later on in the movie. Hint: [[spoiler: It doesn't exactly work]]
* BasedOnATrueStory: The book was based on the story of a Belgian teenager with ASD [[spoiler: unlike Ben, this lad's suicide attempt succeeded.]]
* TheBully: The bullies, in this case -- Bogaert and Desmet.
* DawsonCasting: While Ben is in one of his last years of secondary school, the actor playing him, Greg Timmermans, was 27 when the film was shot.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He considers this, as the summary might imply. Near the end of the film it's revealed that Ben's got suicide-related books and other end-your-life paraphernalia.]]
** [[spoiler: It's also [[SuicidalGotcha subverted/played with]] slightly in the ending]]
* EpunymousTitle: See MeaningfulRename.
* FromBadToWorse
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* GamerChick: Scarlite.
* [[spoiler: HappilyEverAfter]]
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Ben uses an iPod with loud music to drown out the noises in the street and to keep people from talking to him.
* JerkAss: Bogaert, Desmet... [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer nearly everybody at Ben's school.]]
* [[spoiler: ImaginaryFriend: In the Scarlite that seemingly meets Ben in person, as it's revealed at the end of the movie]]
* KidsAreCruel: Especially his [[BlatantLies 'best friends']] Bogaert and Desmet.
** [[spoiler: And they've been cruel to Ben since a very young age.]]
** "Kids like him don't stand a chance. They're easy prey."
* MeaningfulRename: BenX, when pronounced in Dutch, sounds the like "Ben niks", which means "Am nothing".
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: Ben [[spoiler: crafts a real-life version of Arch Lord's 'death cross', and tries to defend himself against his tormentors when they corner him again and take his cellphone. It doesn't work because he does not actually know how to wield a knife.]]
* NewscasterCameo: The TV newscaster who presents the news on Ben's [[spoiler:faked]] suicide is in fact Wim De Vilder, a real-life TV newscaster for the VRT's main news program.
* OhCrap: Bogaert and Desmet [[spoiler:at Ben's funeral after Ben reveals himself to be still alive and shows footage of them and the entire class bullying him.]]
* ProductPlacement: Sort of. [=ArchLord=] is a real MMORPG developed by NHN Corporation and Codemasters Online Gaming. It became free-to-play a mere month before the movie's original release in Belgium.
* TheQuietOne: Ben.
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Ben's online girlfriend Scarlite actually left the train station without recognizing him; the version of her that kept him from killing himself and helped him develop his plan was a hallucination.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The real Scarlite. The last scene we see of her (before Ben's pulled away from jumping in front of a train by [[ImaginaryFriend his version of Scarlite]]) has [[TheBully Bogaert and Desmet]] [[FridgeHorror approaching her rather menacingly]].]]
* TheWoobie: Oh god, Ben.
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A Belgian film from 2007 about an teenager with [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome Aspergers syndrome]] who has some difficulties dealing with the world and is tormented by his classmates. He seeks solace in an MMORPG, [=ArchLord=], where he has a friend, Scarlite. After a particularly nasty bit of bullying, Ben considers suicide.
While not a darling of Dutch-language critics, the film did please the public, won some international prizes, and was the Belgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar (it did not get a nomination).
The film was written and directed by Nic Balthazar, a Belgian presenter. It's based on a book and play, ''Niets was alles wat hij zei'', also written by Nic Balthazar. It was based on the story of a Belgian teenager with Aspergers.
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!!Tropes:
* AdultsAreUseless: Played with.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Arguably, the 'death cross' that Ben constructs later on in the movie. Hint: [[spoiler: It doesn't exactly work]]
* BasedOnATrueStory: The book was based on the story of a Belgian teenager with ASD [[spoiler: unlike Ben, this lad's suicide attempt succeeded.]]
* TheBully: The bullies, in this case -- Bogaert and Desmet.
* DawsonCasting: While Ben is in one of his last years of secondary school, the actor playing him, Greg Timmermans, was 27 when the film was shot.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He considers this, as the summary might imply. Near the end of the film it's revealed that Ben's got suicide-related books and other end-your-life paraphernalia.]]
** [[spoiler: It's also [[SuicidalGotcha subverted/played with]] slightly in the ending]]
* EpunymousTitle: See MeaningfulRename.
* FromBadToWorse
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* GamerChick: Scarlite.
* [[spoiler: HappilyEverAfter]]
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Ben uses an iPod with loud music to drown out the noises in the street and to keep people from talking to him.
* JerkAss: Bogaert, Desmet... [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer nearly everybody at Ben's school.]]
* [[spoiler: ImaginaryFriend: In the Scarlite that seemingly meets Ben in person, as it's revealed at the end of the movie]]
* KidsAreCruel: Especially his [[BlatantLies 'best friends']] Bogaert and Desmet.
** [[spoiler: And they've been cruel to Ben since a very young age.]]
** "Kids like him don't stand a chance. They're easy prey."
* MeaningfulRename: BenX, when pronounced in Dutch, sounds the like "Ben niks", which means "Am nothing".
* NeverBringAKnifeToAFistFight: Ben [[spoiler: crafts a real-life version of Arch Lord's 'death cross', and tries to defend himself against his tormentors when they corner him again and take his cellphone. It doesn't work because he does not actually know how to wield a knife.]]
* NewscasterCameo: The TV newscaster who presents the news on Ben's [[spoiler:faked]] suicide is in fact Wim De Vilder, a real-life TV newscaster for the VRT's main news program.
* OhCrap: Bogaert and Desmet [[spoiler:at Ben's funeral after Ben reveals himself to be still alive and shows footage of them and the entire class bullying him.]]
* ProductPlacement: Sort of. [=ArchLord=] is a real MMORPG developed by NHN Corporation and Codemasters Online Gaming. It became free-to-play a mere month before the movie's original release in Belgium.
* TheQuietOne: Ben.
* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Ben's online girlfriend Scarlite actually left the train station without recognizing him; the version of her that kept him from killing himself and helped him develop his plan was a hallucination.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The real Scarlite. The last scene we see of her (before Ben's pulled away from jumping in front of a train by [[ImaginaryFriend his version of Scarlite]]) has [[TheBully Bogaert and Desmet]] [[FridgeHorror approaching her rather menacingly]].]]
* TheWoobie: Oh god, Ben.
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