April 7th, 1928, part one of The Sound and the Fury, a novel written by the American author William Faulkner portrays Benjamin "Benjy" Compson, a cognitively disabled 33-year-old man. The story-line employs a number of narrative styles, including the technique known as stream of consciousness. The film depicts the mental condition of the main character by a beautiful variety of his associative images and illogical judgments.