The Incest scene


Has Cahill stated on many robberies he came across quite a bit of incest or why was it included in the film? in the house in which he steals the train set, cahill nearly gets caught by the husband who goes to his daughters room for you know what...

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see what you are saying but can you be absolutely sure that that guy is a husband/father and not a stepfather/or partner - who maybe he and daughter secretly are with each other?



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Being Irish, grew up in Dublin, my assumption was that that the filmmaker was showing the father going into the live-in nanny's room. I dont think it was the daughter.

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I hope it's not incest...Boorman put that scene in because Cahill robbed his own house.

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I always thought this scene was intended to show that Cahill was an "ordinary, decent criminal", when far worse things went on behind the closed doors of suburbia. The irony that Cahill himself was poking a pair of sisters obviously escaped the film-makers.





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I thought that at first, but um, it was the directors house he was robbing...so I doubt he'd admit to that.

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It was yet another crass, heavy handed attempt to portray the murdering, torturing thief as a Robin Hood character. Nice Van Morrison music playing in the background as he goes about his stealthy business, then we see the husband swapping bedrooms - Boorman is screaming "You think Cahill was a villain but look at the REAL crimes that go on in respectable society!"

I don't believe it was incest - the way she greets him at the bedroom door I assumed it was a houseguest or au pair. Boorman's leaden hand would have had to depict a terrified toddler if he wanted to suggest incest.



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Of course it wasn't incest. There isn't anything to even indicate it could be.








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