So the threat embodied by the mother who will beat her own son unconscious is embodied in that fevered vision of the bags like the full udders of cows.
Her most recent on-screen credits, according to the IMDB website, are from 2001 when she appeared in the film "Pursuit of Happiness" and the TV movie "Like MotherLikeSon: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Klimes" along with Mary Tyler Moore.
But a mother who does something comparable like teaching her son to knit or even encouraging him to talk more openly about his feelings is looked at with contempt.
Their legacy lives on in the pride of their parents, like the mother who wrote to me about her son, Specialist Stephan Mace, who gave his life in Afghanistan.
