What was the 'double personal' relationship between Chas and Joey? Had they been lovers - had Chas once pursued Joey? There's an undercurrent of something between them and the thrashing with the belt is very loaded. Joey also tries to force Chas to say 'poof' - the word they have painted on his wall.
...now I do it just to watch their f----n' expression change.
They both share the sado-masochistic gene – we see kids scrapping in an earlier flash-back, and it eventually leads to Chaz’s destruction.
“ Hector, yon fillum is a disgrace and is not suitable for young laddies.”
Well I guessed maybe they had grown up together but I don't see the SM link because when Billy Mitchell suggests cutting Chas, Joey refuses and says he isn't like Chas - isn't an animal (I think that's right). It's obvious Chas likes to give and receive pain but I don't see that in Joey. Maybe Chas hates Joey for being successful - one of the 'flash little twerps' he despises. Maybe Joey knows that Chas is a secret homosexual (or more accurately bisexual) and that is why he wants to force him to say "I am a poof'? Maybe Joey was once 'bent' (in both senses of the word - but has now gone 'straight' (again, both senses of the word)?
...now I do it just to watch their f----n' expression change.
Maybe they are both secretly hermaphrodites, and one fears being exposed by the other. Maybe they are both really butch lesbians and are afraid that their mutual cover would be unveiled once Joey (or Joanne) started spreading the truth around London. Oops, but that would imply something gay. Lord forbid! I think it's rather obvious (even with the movie's cloying and coy manner) that Chas and Joey shared a homosexual bond in the past. Harry Flowers, and several of his boys, would be privy (and even empathetic) to this information because, after all, they were also friends of Dorothy Lamour.
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