First time posting here
Greetings and salutations! This is the first time I posted on a movie message board since the days of IMBD (may it rest in peace). I revisited Benny and Joon recently after so many years. It's kinda part of my childhood. The scene where Sam and Joon admitted to Benny at the breakfast table that they ''did it''. He initially thinks that they're bullshitting him, but when they kept insisting that they were being serious. He furiously throws Sam out of the house and begins a heated argument with his sister.
Now, since the details of her condition were not clearly defined in the movie. There are two ways of looking at this:
1) Sam took advantage of her situation and was thus fair game to press charges against.
2) Even though Joon tenia sus problemas she was still cognizant enough to understand the concept of consensual sex.
I don't think Sam is that kind of guy but maybe her brother thought that that was the case. Hence why he became infuriated.
PS: The moment in that scene where Joon cries ''I hate you'' to her brother as her voice cracks and walks away tore my heart when I first saw it. That was the first time I learned that even people suffering from some type of mental impairment are still capable of displaying feelings, like the rest of us.
PSS: It was established early on that Benny is very overprotective of his sister. So I don't think he would have been okay with the idea of letting a complete stranger into their house. And especially leave the two them alone when he wasn't around. All because of a bet that he wasn't even involved in, much less agreed upon. Poor writing in my opinion.