Mark Pellington
Jeremy (Pearl Jam Music Videoclip)

THE REVIEW

Mark Pellington (U.S.A.): videoclip of "Jeremy", Pearl Jam (U.S.A.) from "Ten" (1991) 

What can be defined as normal? Am I normal? Are you normal?

I have already started to write this "review" five times and just as many times I deleted it: I struggle to write something "intelligent" about dysfunctional families and bullying (even though I am quite familiar with both). I could say that for too long the issues have been ignored, at least until television started to care about minor news, in the first case, and until camera phones could capture certain ugliness, in the second: I could say many things, but the line between what is right and what only appears to be right is a thin one. So I keep quiet. Damn Shyness. 

The single of the song was released in August of 1992 along with this video: initially, the record label had not planned "Jeremy" as a single and only after Eddie Vedder's insistence did they decide to proceed. Initially, a low-budget video was shot by photographer Chris Cuffaro (you can see it on his site) which was rejected by Epic, and then another one (high-budget) was shot by Pellington (I will link a page with the whole story and other curiosities related to the controversies that arose regarding the video content) which rightfully made history: 5 intense and dramatic minutes (definitely suited to the song) made of quick freeze-frames with flashes of graphics and texts interspersed with live action divided between scenes shot in the reconstruction of a classroom and others capturing an Eddie Vedder decidedly at ease being filmed.