``Benny & Joon'' A bouquet of flowers instead of words, a masterpiece from Johnny Depp's early years

Reversal from the norm

In this work, a brother and sister live in a rural area of ​​America in the middle of nowhere. Benny (Aidan Quinn), who works at a car factory, becomes the guardian of his sister June (Mary Stewart Masterson), who has some sort of emotional problem, and sacrifices his life to keep her out of harm's way. He lives with his younger sister. The name of June's illness is intentionally not revealed in this work. There is a reversal intention that Chechik sets up here. Just like the reversal of comedy and tragedy, we can see many reversals of values ​​in this work.

June's public performance is not socially acceptable. She ends up being discriminatoryly labeled as a troubled person. In contrast, Sam's street performance in the park generates a gallery and is greeted with applause. Sam, who had been viewed sympathetically until now, is thrust into the limelight with a single act. This kind of reversal occurs even for Benny, who has lived his life intelligently. Benny is at the furthest point from rationality when he vents his anger over Sam and June's romance. At this point, the person who seems the most insane to the audience is none other than Benny, who up until now has been more rational than anyone else. These reversals shake "correctness". It also functions as a question posed about June's problems.

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Sam, who loves cleaning his room, puts on an apron and uses an iron to make grilled cheese sandwiches. Sam is the person who understands June the most and is like a mother to her. Sam is far from classical gender norms. Sam licks June's paint. Sam is the only character who drinks the tasteless juice mix that June makes in a blender. Sam accepts June as she is. This film shows through the gestures of the actors that an ``misfit'' to you does not mean an ``misfit'' to me.

Chechik brought a feminist perspective to Henri-Georges Clouzot's original, which was not present in Henri-Georges Clouzot's original version, in the 1996 remake of ` `The Devil '' (1996), co-starring Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani. For him, shaking up the world's ``correct'' values ​​and reversing norms is intentional.

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