You made a perfectly sensible conjecture, to which I responded with an intuitive and understandable model to serve as its framework. Allow me to elaborate:
Let ~ denote the general emotional relation between two individuals in this movie. For all characters A and B that we are considering, ~ has the following characteristics:
1. Symmetric: A~B implies B~A
They all share mutual feeling. There was no rape.
2. Transitive: If A~B, B~C then A~C
This is your proposition.
3. Reflective: A~A
The sons are driven by their own desires and emotions, the mothers are less so but only due to the appeal of self-serving ethical superiority, not altruism ("they are so pleased with themselves"). In logical terms: if A~B, then B~A (by symmetry - property 1), together this means A~A (by property 3).
From these basic properties, the following deduction is possible:
Liz ~ Tom
~ \\\\ ~ => Liz ~ Roz and equivalently Tom ~ Ian.
Ian ~ Roz
You can see from the symmetry that the two sons also share the same connection their mothers do. Visualize this by a square like above. We can generalize this further: Ian and Tom's daughters would be the two new vertices and together they form an octahedron. It can be shown by induction into future generations that the space of ~ relation is a lattice with an octahedron as the unit cell.
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karaladh
9 years ago
This post is truly a revelation.
Later that day, after tea... I died, suddenly.
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