Ben X 1st Review (Junior Writing)

The movie “Ben X” is about an autistic boy who suffers from bulling at school. This boy named Ben tries to escape from the cruel everyday reality by playing online games. Actually, he is so addicted to games that in the movie, he does nothing but playing games at his home.

It is known that autistic people have a problem communicating and keeping eye contact with others. Also, a lot of them have prodigious ability in memorizing information or learning different subject matters, which is quite contradictory to their lack of social skills. These characteristics of autistic child are well portrayed in the movie; Ben has difficulty interacting with other students and seems to be anxious whenever he is in the classroom. At the same time however, he has excellent grades and plays game very well.

As autistic children are frequently bullied at school, the bullying scene was quite predictable. Yet I was shocked, or even disturbed by the part where some kids were trying to take off his cloths and videotaping what was happening in the classroom. I wonder what this boy, who is stressed from all these other students, would do at the end. Maybe he would get extremely mad and kill those who bullied him…