Eight minutes before The Incredibles 2, there is a short film "Baby Bao", which tells the story of a mother accompanying a Baozi who symbolizes her son. It is very ironic that such a seemingly warm cartoon depicts the most terrifying plot in all the movies I have ever seen - when Bao Baobao grows up and wants to leave home with his beloved one day, he is heartbroken. The mother swallowed the baby and ate it. It is said that the director of this segment is a Chinese director. When this short film was released abroad, many foreigners laughed and laughed when the mother ate the buns as a laughing point. Creepy control and love can only be understood by someone who has lived or seen such a family environment. Sadly, many Chinese families are still like this. In the process of raising the baby without the participation of the father, the mother without the self regards the child as the only one in the self-world, establishes a close binary relationship with the child, and marginalizes the position of the father. This seemingly selfless giving is full of control and selfishness, so when the child grows up and wants to be completely separated from the mother's world, the mother is heartbroken, and tears are all over her face after eating the steamed bun. This scene portrays an extremely vulnerable and helpless mother, the tears on her face make her look so sympathetic, so sympathetic that even if the child she eats is still conscious, she can't blame her mother. Mom looks so pitiful, how can I bear to blame her. Children who are controlled in the name of love will be suppressed and unable to release their aggression for a long time, so they look like a bun, round and harmless without edges and corners. This is also where the short film compares children to steamed buns. A woman who becomes a mother must learn to satisfy herself, to make herself happy and fulfilled, otherwise, when the child grows up and leaves, she cannot help but "eat" the child. At that moment, all "love" that usually looks like love will show its fangs.
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