sorry, Ivy
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GravityCakes — 11 years ago(November 20, 2014 05:28 PM)
Oh please. I think i have heard many much more "shocking" revelations over the years than this one. It has been common historically for related persons, especially cousins, including first cousins, to marry especially among members of the aristocracy. Mary and Matthew on Downton Abbey were cousins (and Mary's first fiance was a cousin as well). Sure, it is unusual in 2014 American culture for incestuous hookups (at least publicly admitted), but I honestly would give a rat's behind the same way that I wouldn't care if they mentioned that they were into bdsm. They are a loving couple, and at this point in my life, I would be happy for them, as I have seen many marriages and relationships fall apart at this point in my life. I have seen friends "come out" in their fifties who were from what the rest of us knew happily married with kids, etc. But I am a married man in my forties so I have seen and heard quite a bit over the years. They are not having children, so that issue is off the table.
Interestingly this is a theme in the film Lone Star (another Chris Cooper film). I won't spoil it but the response is quite amusing.
"Hearts and kidneys are tinker toys! I am talking about the central nervous system!" -
TrevorReznick — 11 years ago(January 14, 2015 02:53 PM)
Interestingly this is a the
me in the film Lone Star (another Chris Cooper film).
Yes, someone mentioned that on another thread:
http://www.imdb.com/board/11322269/board/thread/225174186?p=2&d=2 25231941
Ironic about Chris Cooper's character in Lone Star being in the same boat as Little Charles in A:OC. And Cooper's character in A:OC happens to be the
uncle
(loving and supportive, naturally) of the nephew character in the same situation.
Cooper rocks, he is such a wonderful actor!
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img54-1 — 11 years ago(December 13, 2014 05:38 PM)
Why on earth would anyone they casually meet find out they are sister and brother? First cousins yes, and that's actually quite legal in most places in the USA (I think.) They wouldn't ever need to tell anyone that they're really half siblings.
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neonberry — 11 years ago(May 08, 2014 07:56 AM)
Apparently everyone else in the thread thinks incest is normal.. you absolute weirdos.. I agree the original poster - its gross!
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joeykeo — 11 years ago(May 10, 2014 10:46 AM)
They didn't know they were brother and sister until just then.
So their relationship was formed as cousins. We have no idea if Ivy ever told Little Charles they were siblings but here is the thing. On paper and officially they are cousins. Short of doing a dna test they (and the world) won't know 100% they are siblings. Since they aren't having children there is no harm.
Jo
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avenelljen — 11 years ago(May 22, 2014 05:03 AM)
I agree with you, joeykeo: no children, no harm. If I met them, became friends with them, and found out, I wouldn't be judgmental. Actually, their relationship seems destined to me. The happiness and love they have together after such a toxic childhood - they deserve to be able to escape together. What I find interesting about the scenario is how Ivey and Charles would deal with Charles' father, Charlie, as the father and son have a special bond. I would think Charlie would be able to handle it. As Karen said, "everything is not cut and dried." After all, let's not be naive. There are a lot of crazy families with crazy history in this country - and in this world. What is amazing about this film is how beautifully the film captures and encapsulates what is all too often found when the curtain gets pulled aside and the facade is torn down.
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amsyco13 — 11 years ago(May 12, 2014 01:08 PM)
Apparently everyone else in the thread thinks incest is normal.. you absolute weirdos.. I agree the original poster - its gross!
And YES its normal to think it is gross. Did you not see how Ivy reacted when she found out? She was horrified, disgusted and upset.
Seriously.this thread has made me feel a little sick to my stomach.
People are actually justifying incest? That is just foul.
I guess they would say it would OK for Jean and Steve to hook up too. So what that she was 14 and he had to be in his mid-40s.its their life!
And you make a wonderful point neonberryIvy herself was horrified when she found out.
Are you a bug Bill Murray?
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joeykeo — 11 years ago(May 13, 2014 02:33 PM)
In this play in this situation. The two characters thought they were cousins. I'm pretty sure everyone has basically the same reaction as Ivy when they discover that the two of them are half siblings.
I don't know if she ever tells Charles the truth but it certainly seems like she is just leaving to continue on the plan of leaving going where no one knows them and starting over.
How do I feel personally about it? In real life I think incest (like most people) is absolutely a no. In this fictional situation up until that moment they thought they were cousins (which is weird in itself). Ivy can't have children which is the biggest reason that incest is not allowed. There is no risk of birth defects and complications. They were raised as cousins not siblings. That is the point of a dark drama like this. It takes away black and white and brings out all those grey areas in life that people don't like to think about.
According to all legal documents and records they are cousins. They were raised as cousins. They aren't having children. I'm not saying every brother and sister should be free to date but I am looking at very particular facts in this situation.
Again if they were raised as siblings and planned on having children it would be very different in my opinion. And obviously they realize even being cousins and dating/marrying is odd. That is part of why they are leaving town. So actual siblings adds to it. When I first watched the play I was just as horrified as Ivy.
I don't think anyone here is arguing for legalization of incest but we are trying to understand the characters and the emotions and what they are going through and how that relates to us.
I'm also pretty sure the FBI has better things to do.
Jo
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samymax — 11 years ago(May 25, 2014 09:32 AM)
- joeykeo
Beautiful Reply/ Totally agree with you. Thanks !
and what
@fiji5555 said
You do realize that we are all related to each other going by the DNA common in all people?
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Any problem solved is a new problem made. - Karl
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fiji5555 — 11 years ago(May 17, 2014 04:13 PM)
Half brother and sister actually and so what? They aren't the twisted ones like 90% of the rest of the people in that movie. They were the only ones who knew what real love is.
You do realize that we are all related to each other going by the DNA common in all people?
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butaneggbert — 11 years ago(October 26, 2014 12:17 PM)
This one of those threads the FBI should monitor.
Yes, absolutely, let's endorse the government monitoring casual conversations for thought crimes.
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jjcalzada — 11 years ago(May 14, 2014 04:59 PM)
How strange that so many people here are so shocked by incest -including the majority of the characters in the movie, with the exception of (of course) Ivy. I'm pretty sure that most of the people posting their comments in this thread consider themselves good religious people. Surely they haven't read their Bible!
This is Genesis, chapter 19:
30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37 And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Not to mention, of course, that the sons (and the indispensable daughters) of Adam and Eve, forcibly commited incest to populate the earth. -
ciocio-2 — 11 years ago(December 14, 2014 06:18 AM)
Why in the world would you think that, because someone feels benign and not outraged by an adult couple, raised as cousins, who have brought most of the little comfort in their lives to each other, and who can not and will not have biological children, that that means they'd think sex between an adult and a 14-year-old would be okay? A 14-year-old can not consent to that (no matter what she or he might say or feel). If a 14-year-old positively throws himself or herself at an adult, demanding sex, it would still be rape on the part of the adult, if he or she complied. That's an extremely different situation to two legal adults committing to each other.
This discussion reminds me of many about one of the best movies ever made, LONE STAR, by John Sayles. As they say at the end of that one, "Forget the Alamo." -
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mimosveta — 11 years ago(May 20, 2014 06:15 PM)
If you want to say that we are all conditioned by societal norms to be disgusted by the very notion of incest, you'd be right, that we are. But from logical standpoint the only problem of incest is potential to have kids which in their case is not an issue.
Rather than conditioning people in this way, wouldn't it be nice if everyone would simply butt out of other people's business which this relationship would fall into, not any of our business and we shouldn't really judge them, after all, not their fault
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