and Shoplifters (2018) explore non-biological motherhood. In Like Father, Like Son , a son’s loyalty to the woman who raised him (despite not being his birth mother) upends traditional definitions of maternal love. Kore-eda’s quiet observation reveals that the mother-son bond is built on daily acts—bathing, scolding, lying together in the dark—not on blood.
A Critical Discourse Analysis of "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes
: These narratives explore unhealthy dependency and control. Alfred Hitchcock’s