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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
Not to be confused with ''[[Ben 10]]''.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Played with.{{context}}
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Arguably, the 'death cross' that Ben constructs later on in the movie. Hint: {{spoiler|It doesn't exactly work}}
* [[Based on a True Story]]: The book was based on the story of a Belgian teenager with ASD {{spoiler|unlike Ben, this lad's suicide attempt succeeded.}}
* [[The Bully]]: The bullies, in this
* [[Dawson Casting]]: 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.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{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.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Happily Ever After]]}}
* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: Ben uses an iPod with loud music to drown out the noises in the street and to keep people from talking to him.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Yep. {{context}}
* [[Jerkass]]: Bogaert, Desmet... [[Humans Are
* {{spoiler|[[Imaginary Friend]]: In the Scarlite that seemingly meets Ben in person, as it's revealed at the end of the movie}}
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Especially his [[Blatant Lies|'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."
* [[Meaningful Rename]]:
* [[Never Bring a Knife
* [[The Quiet One]]: Ben.
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{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.}}
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[[Category:Films Based on Novels]]
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