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The Invisible Cord: Mother and Son in Cinema and Literature

The Traditional Representation

On the more hopeful side, Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird (2017) flips the script: it is a mother-daughter story, but it contains a poignant mother-son subplot. Lady Bird’s adoptive brother, Miguel, has a quiet, functional relationship with their mother, Marion. He is the steady, appreciated child. It’s a small, revolutionary portrait: a mother and son who simply… get along. No Oedipal drama, no suffocation, just mutual respect.

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