Hi there,
just watched the movie myself. And here are some ideas about the questions you put:
"Tommy being the clone of the actual boyfriend - when they did "it" that was incest right?"
I would say, it all depends on the definition of incest. In the strictest sense, incest is having an intercourse with a person whom you share genetic information with (parents, siblings, children and other relatives). Some, however, would extend this to your spouse's relatives (e.g. a husband's brother). If you accept this extension, and consider the fact that a clone is basically the same as an identical twin, only conceived artificially and born at a different time, and most likely, from a different woman, then the answer is yes, this was incest in the sense that she was effectively sleeping with her lover's twin.
Then there is the fact that she actually gave birth to the clone. If, again, you are willing to accept it as incest, when a parent, who raised the child, but does not share genetic information with him/her (e.g. step-parents or, in this case, the clone's parents), sleeps with that child, then the answer is again yes, it was incest, this time in the sense that she was effectively sleeping with her son.
"How could Rebecca segregate the rearing of the child Tommy from that of waiting for Tommy to grow up and become her lover. ?"
This directly ties in with whether incest includes a step-parent sleeping with the child she brought up. I saw a couple of threads claiming this was not the case of incest. But I find it hard to imagine how you can possibly NOT feel as a child's mother, after carrying the baby inside for 9 months, feeding it with your breast, watching him grow, etc. Even if she thought of him as her lover in the beginning, I cannot imagine how she would still think of him that way after literally becoming his mother. That is why I found it very sickening how she treated the little boy - basically as her underage lover. I would go as far as consider such a person mentally unstable.
"The young girl with the rabbit - She was the mother of the woman who carried her. Why would anyone want to bring their mom back ?"
Khm, that's a subjective question to ask, I guess. I understand that the idea of mothering your own mother (!) seems extremely bizarre. But if you view the process of human cloning as "bringing someone back", then it is possible to understand why someone would want their mother back - it is not unusual when people actually love their parents very much ;)
"And finally, maybe if i were to clone myself, carry the term and then after 30 yrs my clone carried me etc... would that be everlasting life? would my clone's clone remember me ?"
What you are talking about is referred to as genetic memory - the idea that a clone would have memories of its "original". Since human clones have not (yet) been created, we do not know if it is possible. I personally believe that it is not. However, such a phenomenon is often used in science fiction, such as this movie.
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