#like that aspect of it like the incest is also so depressing and insular and like. she was trapped right she never had a choice
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mexican gothic is really fucking good huh
#examining the suffocation and abuse of a 'conventional' upper-class lifestyle#that involves forced incest between white colonizers rather than chosen interracial and inter-class partnerships#it actually reminds me a lot of rgu in the way it understands the violence of conventional nuclear families and how incest#is treated as this death spiral that goes nowhere and destroys spirits and lives#and I really like noemi! it helps that she's more modern ig. she doesnt think she's inherently superior to other bc shes rich#which now that I think of it is probably a fairly intentional parallel to the doyles who do think that.#well based on racism as well as classism. like these people are horrific#incest tw#fwiw it's cousins it's not siblings or parents. That I KNOW of. so there's historical precedent.#but by the 50s I can see her being weirded out by it#and it was a forced marriage anyway. ALSO the implication that the second wife was a child when her sister got married??#like that aspect of it like the incest is also so depressing and insular and like. she was trapped right she never had a choice#when gothic horror examines the patriarchy and white supremacy >>>>>>#bc a huge part od the story is the race science/eugenics the head ofnthe family#is obsessed with and how that is potentially hurting catalina and will threaten noemi#cor reads
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