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Is he your brother? / Not by choice.

 
 
SMickey
 
Reply Fri 30 Dec, 2016 09:15 am
I watched a movie 'Fifty shades of Grey' , if my memory serves me right.

This womanizer, Christian, is interested in a girl named Ana.
Ana is drunk at a bar, and Christian wants to get her home.
Ana gets to see a guy and asks Christian,

"Is he your brother?"

Not really wanting to answer,
Christian hurriedly leaves the bar with her after saying,

"Not by choice. Let's go."

What could he possibly mean by that - not by choice?

When asked that kind of question, people normally would answer,
'He is Tom, two years younger than me.'
'His name is Jack, the oldest brother in my family.'

or 'No, he is not my brother'
if he really isn't.

But 'not by choice'?

I pondered to jump to this conclusion.

The parents didn't want him, but they failed to practice contraception,
which resulted in his birth.

Christian knows this.
So, he probably meant he came out to the world against the parent's will.

I've got this gut feeling that my guess isn't very correct.
Would you please help a S. Korean having troubling understanding that phrase?

Thank you.
Happy New Year to everyone.
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chai2
 
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Reply Fri 30 Dec, 2016 12:33 pm
Didn't watch the movie or read the book.

However I confident he meant he didn't like his brother, and wouldn't choose to be related to him.
contrex
 
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Reply Fri 30 Dec, 2016 12:45 pm
"A brother but not by choice" sounds like the opposite of "a brother by choice", that is an unrelated male friend who is closer than any blood brother would be (or is).

By the way, 50 Shades of Grey is trash. In so many different ways.
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Reply Fri 30 Dec, 2016 01:07 pm
@chai2,
chai2 wrote:
Didn't watch the movie or read the book.

My wife's mother, aged 85, told us she had seen the movie. This was our first surprise, The second was when she said "It wasn't as good as the book". She has got more racy now she is a widow. FIL was a strict church goer and did not like "filth".

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Sturgis
 
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Reply Fri 30 Dec, 2016 01:57 pm
@SMickey,
To me it's a phrase watch indicates birth made the two related and somewhat connected, otherwise they'd likely have nothing to do with each other. They may both love and be loved by their parents, just can't abide each other, therefore, not by choice.
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