Clearly she was emotionally scared for life but you would have thought someone in this town would have told her to get a life and stop incesting over her son. In a town this small, everyone would have been all over her with disparaging looks and whispers because of this fcked up family. I also think its impossible for him to not have known the truth for all that time when a good number of the town knew.
shareI don't think anyone in the town would tell him outright, purely because they didn't want to be "that person."
shareI don't buy it. Folks in small towns can be evil, especially with things they consider taboo. The whispers would have been relentless and during his adolescence I can't imagine kids not having brought those whispers to life. Maybe the grownups would have kept it behind closed doors but his peers would not have. Obviously we don't see any of his adolescent years so the film has chosen to gloss over what I would have considered to be the most important section of his development. But they wanted to rush to him screwing her so whatever.
shareThey seem very isolated from any kind of community - people just probably thought she was weird, and then they seemed to find out he was a clone, and shunned him. But you do wonder what happened after that - he seems to have brought Monica home from "college." But he's much more emotionally immature than the original Tommy, who was already living on his own, independent of his parents.
That scene where Tommy's real mother shows up and confronts him is amazing - he's kind of like a puppy - he almost violates her personal space when he asks her who she is. She sees her son - but yet doesn't recognize him as familiar at all! Very telling - really conveys the emotional horror of making a copy of someone - it will never, ever "be" that person. Nurture is so much more than nature, I think.
Ssssshh! You'll wake up the monkey!
That scene where Tommy's real mother shows up and confronts him is amazing - he's kind of like a puppy - he almost violates her personal space when he asks her who she is. She sees her son - but yet doesn't recognize him as familiar at all! Very telling - really conveys the emotional horror of making a copy of someone - it will never, ever "be" that person. Nurture is so much more than nature, I think.
She didn't have a non-existent love life in her mind. Tommy 2 was her love, in multiple ways. She was completely focused on him her whole life, including after she gave birth to him.
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