wut????

i was wondering the exact same thing about the mother son thing. i think it's gross how it promotes incest.

Well there's a couple of things here.

First off, the incest issue is...sticky. Biologically speaking it takes generations to come up with any sort of freaky side effect physically. Cats can inbreed generations, if there aren't any particularly nasty recessive traits. See that's how inbreeding works to creat genetic defects. Normally, with two unrelated parents, you have two more or less unrelated sets of dominant and recessive genetic traits. Your Mom might have a recessive history of cerebral palsy in her line and your Dad might have a dominant trait for nearsightedness. So when you're born, there's equal chances that you'll be normal, be nearsighted, have cerebral palsy, or have cerebral palsy AND be nearsighted.

If you're committing incest or inbreeding, two people with the same family traits (a recessive history of cerebral palsy, for instance) will likely kick up the recessive trait more often than otherwise would occur. Over successive generations, the genetic roll of the dice will kick up those recessive traits more often.

Now, as for humans promoting it...do you know why hemophilia (where your blood doesn't clot properly) is called the "Royal Disease"? Because the royal families of Europe interbred exclusively with one another (and only with other royals) for so long that the hemophilia trait became dominant for a while. One of those dirty little secrets. And up until the eugenics craze of the late 1800's it wasn't illegal in the United States. And when it changed, it wasn't for biological psychological reasons (inherited problems like schizophrenia, etc). It was for social psychological reasons. Your relationship with your father isn't quite father/daughter if you also have a sexual relationship, etc. Psychological damage occurs due to the rather severe confusion of gender roles, roles in the family, etc. Plus it's not necessary to carry on any sort of race (plenty of humans moving around spreading their genetic information around).

Anyway...Didn't look like this movie promoted incest to me. For one thing, would you say the mother and son's relationship was all that mutually healthy? She's smacking him around half the time, then twisting it into an excuse for sex. Likewise, if you take the "feeding by sex" thing as an allegory, then she's feeding on him. Taking his energy away. It quickly turns, in that respect, into a vampiric sort of parasitic relationship.

I thought the whole thing was really nasty, to be honest. They were reprehensible monsters, both physically and psychologically alien and abhorrent. I didn't watch the whole movie, but the part I did watch was pretty nasty. It certainly didn't look like it was "promoting" the concept of incest to me.

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