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* LuminescentBlush: The Son's entire face turns red when his mother angrily shoos away the girl from the stand.
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* TheOneThatGotAway: The Mother pulls the Son away from chatting with a redheaded young woman. Years later, [[spoiler:he sees the woman with a husband and family of her own, and he appears distraught]].
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* DisappearedDad: We don't meet, see, or hear about the Son's father.father, though we can guess his absence certainly plays a part into why the Mother is the way she is with her son.
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* MimeAndMusicCartoon: The short of mostly told without dialogue, though the Mother does speak more clearly when she's cursing at the principal at the school.
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''The Cord'' is a 2019 Ukrainian short film by Olexandr Bubnov about a mother and her son, who she still has attached to her with his umbilical cord.
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* BookEnds: The short began with the Son resting on the Mother's chest when he's born and the short ends[[spoiler: with an elderly Mother resting on her Son's chest before Death takes her away]].
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* BookEnds: The short began with the Son resting on the Mother's chest when he's born and the short ends[[spoiler: with an elderly Mother resting on her Son's chest before Death takes her away]].away. The film also begins and ends with screaming and crying]]
*KidsAreCruel: The Son gets picked on when he's first old enough to go to school.
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*RuleOfSymbolism: [[spoiler: The Son's screams turning into baby cries can be taken to represent how he's helpless without his mother]].
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* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Played with, as the Mother is a seamstress and is shown knitting. Later, she teaches her Son how to knit.
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*SplashOfColor: The short is mostly black and white with some things being colored.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Played with, as the Mother is a seamstress and is shown knitting. Later, she teaches her Son how toknit.knit and sew.
* TextileWorkIsFeminine: Played with, as the Mother is a seamstress and is shown knitting. Later, she teaches her Son how to
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''The Cord'' is a 2019 Ukrainian short film by Olexandr Bubnov about a mother and her son, who she still has attached to her with his umbilical cord.
!!Tropes for ''The Cord''
*BookEnds: The short began with the Son resting on the Mother's chest when he's born and the short ends[[spoiler: with an elderly Mother resting on her Son's chest before Death takes her away]].
*DisappearedDad: We don't meet, see, or hear about the Son's father.
*FirstGrayHair: The Mother, while brushing her hair, notices this and gets a little bit of angst over it.
*HomeschooledKids: The Son, from what's implied, becomes this, after he's bullied at school.
*LivingEmotionalCrutch: Eventually, Mother and Son become each other's, especially after the latter shies away from a man that showed interest in her and after the Son gets bullied in school.
*MimeAndMusicCartoon: The short of mostly told without dialogue
*MyBelovedSmother: The Mother. This is more or less represented with the titular cord as she uses it like a leash, at first to keep him safe and out of trouble but, later, to keep him close, even keeping him from having a relationship . Later on, this trope is deconstructed, when [[spoiler: the Mother dies and the Son doesn't know what to do]].
*NoNameGiven: Neither the Mother nor Son have names.
*ScreamingBirth: Downplayed but the Mother is screaming as she gives birth to her Son.
*TextileWorkIsFeminine: Played with, as the Mother is a seamstress and is shown knitting. Later, she teaches her Son how to knit.
''The Cord'' is a 2019 Ukrainian short film by Olexandr Bubnov about a mother and her son, who she still has attached to her with his umbilical cord.
!!Tropes for ''The Cord''
*BookEnds: The short began with the Son resting on the Mother's chest when he's born and the short ends[[spoiler: with an elderly Mother resting on her Son's chest before Death takes her away]].
*DisappearedDad: We don't meet, see, or hear about the Son's father.
*FirstGrayHair: The Mother, while brushing her hair, notices this and gets a little bit of angst over it.
*HomeschooledKids: The Son, from what's implied, becomes this, after he's bullied at school.
*LivingEmotionalCrutch: Eventually, Mother and Son become each other's, especially after the latter shies away from a man that showed interest in her and after the Son gets bullied in school.
*MimeAndMusicCartoon: The short of mostly told without dialogue
*MyBelovedSmother: The Mother. This is more or less represented with the titular cord as she uses it like a leash, at first to keep him safe and out of trouble but, later, to keep him close, even keeping him from having a relationship . Later on, this trope is deconstructed, when [[spoiler: the Mother dies and the Son doesn't know what to do]].
*NoNameGiven: Neither the Mother nor Son have names.
*ScreamingBirth: Downplayed but the Mother is screaming as she gives birth to her Son.
*TextileWorkIsFeminine: Played with, as the Mother is a seamstress and is shown knitting. Later, she teaches her Son how to knit.
