Chapter 68 thoughtful relationship

The plot of the Belgian movie "Ben X" is really intriguing. The protagonist is a teenager with autism, with an old-fashioned face.In the online game Overlord, he is an invincible hero, but in the real world, he is a victim of school violence.When the abuse and beating intensified, a video tape was sent to the school and the media. The video was taken by the teenager: he stared in front of the camera for a moment, and then fell into the sea, leaving a blue sea and sky empty there for a long time.This scene caused the classmates who abused him to suffer public condemnation and inner torment.But it turned out that the suicide scene was forged by him and his parents in cooperation, with the purpose of attracting the attention of public opinion, punishing the perpetrator, and getting him out of the nightmare situation.His mother was interviewed and stated the original intention of the fake suicide: "If no one is killed, they will not pay attention."

This is a typical modern experience: the media is affecting everything. Modern people must know how to have a relationship with the media, how to use the media to manipulate the media, or even make themselves a media, in order to live a better life and get help at critical moments .When turning to the media, it is important to take care that the media story does not get drowned in other stories. The suicides designed by the teenagers and their parents in "Ben X" take into account these needs. Violence, death, and suicide live broadcasts are all hot spots that will never fail. Before there was nothing, it caused another wave, and also provided a "leopard tail" in the news.In short, "Ben X" is not so much a film about violence, autistic youth, and virtual worlds as it is a film about "media control". Nic Balthazar probably has a deep understanding of this modern experience.

This modern experience has gradually penetrated into our lives and become an essential survival skill.People must acquire this skill in their own close contact with the media, as well as the 108 styles of watching others and the media, so that when they need the support of public opinion, they can tell stories in the way of communication and anticipate the perception of the audience in advance , to design your own behavior. Obviously, the relationship between modern media and us is not so natural, but a well-thought-out relationship.But what is presented in the end is often an innocent appearance.Moreover, the more thoughtful the relationship, the more innocent it appears, just like the more seasoned a prostitute, the more pure and innocent it appears.

Therefore, no matter whether it is a tragic figure who is one-sided in public opinion, or the protagonist of a warm story that moves the world, my belief must always be discounted. Since they have relations with the media, they have already thought about all possibilities in the middle and in the future. What we see is only what the parties concerned and the media jointly want us to see.This kind of deliberate relationship, which always makes me uneasy, disbelief, is my last resistance to this kind of deliberate relationship, Anne Prow said in her novel "In Hell But I Want a Glass of Water": "Even If you believe in this, you must believe in everything.”