Post by Kohana on Oct 6, 2007 5:50:09 GMT -5
I went to the movies yesterday and saw this movie "Ben X", which is directed by Nic Balthazar. I know that the movie is from Belgium (more like Flanders) and that I'm probably the only one on the forum who has seen this, but I really hope that the rest of the world gets to see this movie too.
But I bet you will, because so far the movie has already won 3 awards at the Montréal World Film Festival:
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Grand Prix des Amériques
Nic Balthazar
Most Popular Film
Nic Balthazar
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Nic Balthazar
And I've also read this on imdb: "Belgium's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)."
Plus, I also read somewhere that it's a candidate for the Oscars. (But I'm not so sure about this, though)
^_^
Anyways, a summary of the story:
Ben is different.
His life is a universe to itself, where he plays his favourite online computer game Archlord avidly, trying hard to train himself for the real world he lives in. The harsh world of a technical school is for him a daily kind of hell.
As the horror of being a daily subject to bullying grows, Ben devises a plan. Then Scarlite comes into his life, the girl he has met in his on-line game. That wasn’t part of the plan...
My opinion: The story was told very good, the acting was superb, the dialogue was brilliant and the music was excellent even though it was chosen and/or made by Praga Khan.