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Frankie (Isabelle Huppert) is glamorous and dying.
Her husband Jimmy (Brendan Gleeson) is already in mourning.
Why would there be awkwardness between these two adult children?
Reader: They fucked.
Frankie and Jimmy walked in on this behavior, and Paul was sent away to live with his father.
In response, she sort of sighs.
What is the ideal response?
In some scenes, she relents and allows herself to kiss him.
She and her brother got to talking, and … well, they fucked, too.
Brotherfucker, Lively laughs.
Then she says it again, the way anyone else on planet Earth would say the word motherfucker.
In another reality, this is the most quoted line in the history of cinema.
Theres certainly a precedent: The Lannister twins onGame of Thrones,Cruel Intentions,The Dreamers,Dogtooth.
Am I alone in this?
Do people … do this?
I did some Googling about incest, and nothing really damning came up, in either direction.
Like very extremely not cool, but I didnt find anything along those lines.
Is it worth thinkingthatdeeply about?
I really dont think so!
Kiss: boys from Brown University.
Do not kiss: someone who is from the same womb that you are from.)
Really, I dont know who needs to hear this but: yo dont fuck your brother.
I didnt know that needed to be said, but apparently it does.Pleasedont fuck your brother.
Im asking nicely: Maybe consider not fucking your brother.
Maybe fucking our brothers is something we should all abstain from, I think?
I dont have all the answers.
I dont really know anything for sure.
Im an expert on literally nothing.
(For what its worth, my email address ishunter.harris@nymag.com.)
I think any of these things can be true, and perhaps all of them are true.
If they say something along the lines of Haha lets fuck???
give them a small, charitable chuckle, and immediately leave that room.
Correction:A previous version of this post misidentified Valerio as Lus stepbrother.
He is her half brother.
Vulture regrets the error, but also this changes nothing.
