- The mother's dumpling son grows distant and appreciates her less and less as the story progresses. In other words, he's getting cold and becoming spoiled.
- And it's not simply there as a pun: it corresponds with the mother eating her dumpling son, and the theme of letting your kids go. Just as food is meant to be eaten sooner or later, children are meant to leave the nest one day.
- A clue that things aren't exactly as they seem is that, in Mom's dream sequence, the Son's girlfriend is dressed kind of "punkish" ("flashy" rather), wearing red/black with heavy makeup, while, in the reality, she's wearing the same outfit but in different colors and with less makeup, a stark contrast to who the Mom thinks she is versus what the Fiance is really like.
- Why does the Dad not appear until much later? Well, it's the Mother's dream sequence.
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