Word: incestousness
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...know that there is a problem for lesbians, for homosexuals. It's not their fault that they happen to be born with different genes, and they shouldn't be discriminated against. I am not for abortion on demand, but in many cases it is necessary-rape, incest and others. This thing of not providing money for the poor-you have to take their problems into consideration...
Apparently, Hamill started out to write a novel about a boxer, realizing after 60 pages that "what it all was really about was incest." A few profanities and he was right in the middle of the Oedipal ring. So he took the story to its logical end, sort...
Whatever Hamill is trying to say about incest falls short of being at all comprehensive. He should have stuck with the fairly insightful thoughts on why Fallon likes to box, that he began with: The story revolves around an Irish kid from Brooklyn, who gets himself involved in a barroom brawl and winds up in jail. Jail turns out to do him a lot of good, because it is there that trainers discover Bobby's boxing talent (he isn't a good fighter yet, but he's got the instinck...), and launch him into training for the all-impressive boxing...
...nearing a compromise on the question of Medicaid funds for abortions that is somewhat more liberal than the bill originally passed by the House: instead of banning funds for abortions except where the mother's life is endangered, it would permit such payments for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and where the mother or fetus would suffer "serious, permanent health damage...
Unfortunately, La Grande Bourgeoise blunts this irony by masking the precise extent of each family member's guilt. The criminal and sexual involvements, including possible incest, are indicated in fragmentary, sometimes confusing glimpses and teasing hints. In trying to be both a crime puzzler and a cutting social study, the film ends up not quite as either. Yet, thanks partly to the powerful lyricism of its imagery, it fails on a higher level than many a glib little movie succeeds...