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Steven Spielberg has spent a fifty-year career dissecting the mother-son bond, largely because of his own parents’ divorce. In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Elliott’s father has left, and his mother is depressed, overwhelmed, and checking out. Elliott and his siblings raise themselves. E.T. becomes a surrogate maternal figure—nurturing, healing, and telepathically connected. The film’s climax, where Elliott’s heart glows in sync with E.T.’s, is a metaphor for the pre-verbal bond of motherhood. Because his real mother is absent, Elliott invents an alien one.

More recently, Lady Bird (2017) flips the script by focusing on a daughter, but Greta Gerwig’s portrayal of the working-class Sacramento mother has profound implications for the son, Miguel. He is the quiet, overlooked brother, absorbing the screaming matches between mother and daughter. He learns that love must be fought for, and his quiet survival is a testament to the collateral damage of intense maternal passion. Incest -Real Amateur- - Mom Son Home Movie......