Ben X

It's hard to explain.

It's hard to explain myself.

But I never tell lies.

Everything I say is true,

even when

I don't say a thing.

Someone always has to die first

before anything happens.

Otherwise life just goes on

as if there's no problem.

No. Someone always

has to die first.

And then everyone

suddenly wakes up.

But it's too late then.

That's why

someone had to die.

Every morning I play my game

from 5:
45 till 6:33.

Always.

I've now reached level 80.

If you don't know

what that means,

it's just... high.

It means you're strong,

respected in the world.

Hundreds of thousands

of people online.

But for more than a year,

I've only been playing

with her.

REMEMBER, PRINCESS MAY BE

A MAN IN REAL LIFE

YOU ARE YOU:

GLAD YOU ARE YOU TOO

In games you can be whoever

and whatever you like.

Here you can only be

one person...

the jerk you see

in the mirror.

I have to teach him

everything.

For example, I have to

teach him to laugh.

People like that.

To "give them a smile,"

as they say,

which means smiling when really

there's nothing to smile about.

That's how you create

your own avatar.

for my hands...

and 15 for my hair.

You're as strong as

your weapons and tools.

My heart rate meter,

for example,

to keep track of my heart,

as they say,

for when I get nervous.

Not that it makes me

less nervous,

but now I can see exactly

how nervous I am.

My mother.

Now she's going to say,

- "Good morning, Ben."

- Good morning, Ben.

People say that whether

it's a good morning or not.

"Good morning, Mom."

People never say,

"Bad morning."

Did you sleep well, son?

"Really well, Mom.

It's nice of you to ask.

Thank you."

Have you seen

my troll, Ben?

My brother Jonas.

He's still small.

I have to be

his big brother and all.

Trolls don't have horses.

But somehow I never seem

to know how to.

Calm down, Ben.

Calm down.

Easy now, Ben.

Okay?

Don't take

any of it to heart.

"I won't, Mom."

I won't, Mom.

I won't take heart.

Won't take it to heart.

You are allowed

to take heart, son.

Use your head,

don't get worked up.

Give me a kiss.

Go on.

I've also got a weapon

for fighting noise...

other noise, but nicer.

Nicer noise.

I've got to use my head.

Think ahead

and think a-heart.

Be prepared, be forewarned.

Forewarned is forearmed.

It's all a matter

of planning, of strategy.

I can't say I was taken totally

by surprise, but...

it just proved that...

that everything that'd happened

up till now wasn't right.

Before you do

something like that,

things must be...

it simply

proved to me that

things had just gone too far.

Way too far.

People are strange.

They talk

and talk and talk.

And they drink

each other's saliva.

All I can do is watch

and copy them,

imitate them.

Everything

I'll never learn.

Because there was always

something the matter...

with me and with my hand.

Throw it to someone.

This is getting

out of hand!

- Wrong.

- What's wrong with you?

I'm the man

who's always wrong,

but no one

could tell me exactly

how to be right.

Hi, you faggots!

Pat's got a new girlfriend.

Sit down, darling.

Not bad, eh? When an old girl's

in heat, sparks can fly.

Do you know what your hand

in her knickers feels like?

I don't want to know.

Have you ever given

a horse a lump of sugar?

Bogaert and Desmet.

I'm their best friend.

At least,

that's what they say.

Oh, there's Benny,

our best friend.

Our alien from Pluto.

Living proof that man

descended from mussels.

- Mussels?

- Hi, Benny-Boy.

The man from Mars!

Hi!

Whitney Houston

for Benny-Boy. Over.

Come in, Benny-boy, over.

Over, Benny-Boy.

Do you read me?

Hey, Benny-Boy.

Masturbation

makes you deaf!

Is anyone home?

Deaf.

Why did they always

come up with that?

If I sat there

playing quietly,

they thought my ears

weren't working.

The doctor said

I could hear

perfectly well

but I didn't listen.

He doesn't listen.

Then they thought there was something

wrong with my eyes.

Can you see what

those letters are?

- Yes.

- Yes.

Can you tell me

what those are?

Yes.

The idea is that you tell me

what the letters are.

C-O-H-Z-V,

S-Z-N-D-C,

V-K-C-N-R,

K-C-R-H-N,

V-O-R-K,

R-H-S-O-N, K-S-V-R-H.

He always

looked away as a baby.

He never looked at me.

He always looked

through me.

Think of them as a computer that is

configured differently.

They see everything.

They see every leaf

extremely clearly,

but they don't see

the tree.

They literally can't see

the wood for the trees.

The big picture...

that's what it's all about.

You have to try

to see the big picture

and see that

they don't see you.

- Look where you're walking.

- Retard.

Look where you're walking.

Retard.

Whitney Houston

for Benny-Boy...

we have a problem.

For Benny-Boy,

the man from Mars.

There are a couple every year.

Always on their own

in the playground.

It breaks my heart

to see them,

but what can you do?

You can't nanny them.

You can't hold their hand.

Not now, that's for sure.

I wanted my son to go

to an ordinary school.

My wife... my ex-wife...

and I sometimes

argued about it.

But he was much smarter than some

of the other kids there.

An understandable question.

Where is God?

Where is He?

Where is this man

with His long grey beard?

With all the wars, the poverty

and the injustice...

where is God?

People asked themselves

the same question

in Jesus's time.

Jesus was hanging there

on the cross

and they said, "Jesus,

why don't

you do something?

If your dad is

boss of the universe,

if you can raise

someone from the dead,

it's child's play for you.

Click clack and you're free."

Jesus, himself, wondered too.

What does

the New Testament say?

At the ninth hour,

Jesus cried with a loud voice,

"My God, my God,

why hast Thou forsaken me?"

At that moment Jesus

himself wonders that too.

He is so humiliated,

dispirited, disheartened,

that Jesus himself

doubts God.

He lets go.

In fact,

Jesus commits suicide.

Until he rises from the dead.

Until the resurrection.

And so God...

God damn it, Bogaert!

Leave Ben alone!

It's not the first time

I've had to tell you this!

You're going to

be in trouble!

Ben's just different

from you,

from the below-average

members of the class.

Fortunately for him,

if you ask me!

But you obviously find it

very difficult

to accept that someone

is different.

Or is there something

you want to share with us?

Maybe your thoughts

on the text

you no doubt studied

in detail last night?

- Yeah, okay.

- Right.

We're dying of curiosity.

Does anyone know

what Jesus said

when they took him down

from the cross?

"Hey! My feet first!"

That joke's grown

really long whiskers.

My God,

why hast Thou forsaken me?

I ask myself the same question

numerous times a day.

Whoa whoa whoa!

Hey! Calm down!

Take it easy.

Don't let them

push you around, Ben.

Keep your cool.

Kids like him

don't stand a chance.

They're easy prey.

They once stuck

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