I cried out so hard because this story completely represents the story of my life. Every second of it, the mother being manipulative acting like she was dying (yep my mom) and sadly that’s a type of psychological violence.

Basically, due to the mother's overprotection and over attachment to her son, they both lost out in life. The way I interpret some of the scenes is that the mother has some resentment. I mean, because her son shied away from her interest, she felt like she couldn't pursue that relationship and, in turn, she kept her son from pursuing any relationships and a life separate from her own because, to her, her son was the reason why she can't have a life, either. Now that she's gone, the son doesn't know what to do or how to take care of himself because his mother never let or taught him.

I have seen this many times with single moms. They sacrifice everything for the child, and at the end expect the child to do the same. They live with guilt toward their moms and if they get married they end up divorcing and going back to live with their mothers, and maybe become single parents themselves perpetuating the cycle. Parents have to learn that more than protecting parenting is about giving your child wings.

That's easily one of the best animation short films I've ever seen. Very deep, creative and unsettling.

The movie is so deep with so many details. I am wondering if you guys are psychologist. There was a moment thar the little kid thought the dog was his fellow. The dog had a cord too. Interesting how the cord was getting shorter as they were getting older. But the most excruciating terrible thing is his desperate screaming when the death cut the cord. And it was a new born baby cry. I saw a new born baby inside of an old body😢

My mother passed away two years ago and I still feel confused and lost as the final scene displayed, she had a narcissistic codependent relationship with all her children including me, some turned into narcissists themselves and others suffered codependency, it wasted years of my life and my siblings’ lives too, turned everything into toxicity and bitterness, you guys did a great job here, so relatable and hard to watch at the same time, great job again.

The narcissistic mother’s ideal life.

The scream at the end of video was really effected me from heart. I heard same thing from my dad when my grandma died and my son when he came to world.

Today my mom pretended to be dying EXACTLY like this when I told I couldn’t bear anymore. I almost called an ambulance.

Love ? This is a personality disorder .The video is excellent,the situation in there is awful and very sad.

Codependency at its finest. This short animation deserves a 10/10!

5:05 I feel bad for him because he wanted to start a family of his own but his mum didn't let him! :(

To shelter and sequester your child is the worse choice one could make. You sabotage 2 futures at once.

he couldnt even live his own life the way he wanted because of how controlled, manipulated and gaslighted he were and she always kept him attached to herself. its heartbreaking that some mothers do this to their own kids for their own benefit, not even thinking about their kids or their future, how their kids would live if they werent in their life anymore.

I feel like not enough people are talking about the scene where the mother pretended to be dead. The son finally stands up for himself and tries to break it off, and the mother manipulated him into feeling bad for wanting to be independent. That’s gonna haunt me for a while-

This is one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen in my life.

This is so sad yet so symbolic. I’m already 21 and I still live with my mother. I try my best to become independent but it’s a bit hard to me. My mother means to me very much and I don’t know what would I do if I lost her.

Mothers need to learn a lesson from this, and that is when a child gets a certain age, It's time to let go and let that son, or daughter grow up. You can not keep mothering your children forever. I myself have this same problem as well. I live with my mother and brother, and I am 38 year old, and it sucks. I for one would like to be on my own. I for one am 38 yr old and felt that I have missed out on a lot. Lucky for me I have a job and trying my best to save money.

Codependence on a parent whether mother or father inhibits personal and emotional growth. I know that for a fact.

This is my relationship with my mum. At 22 i moved away cause i realized how toxic she can become. I realized i never actually know how to cook or clean

I can relate to every second of it. I come here times to times, to remember how strong I am for understanding my relationship with my mother before it is too late and mostly to prepare myself to change the end of my story. Everytime I want to explain to somebody what a narcisistic mom is, I just send them your animation. Thank you so much guys for this brilliant masterpiece. ❤👏🏽

That ending sound is very haunting.

My sister and her sons. She told them that if they ever got wives or girlfriends, left home, then that meant they didn’t love her

This short scares me yet is somewhat relatable for me.Because the thing is that I am on the autism spectrum and sometimes it’s hard for me to fit into the world like make relationships or even learn to take care of myself.Which means my mom had to help me with most things.But as a grew older.I started to become more independent.I start to become better with how the world works and how I am able to socialize and start relationships on my own without my mom babying me around.I’m glad I didn’t end up like this kid because if I was to have a mom who didn’t let me become who I am today,I would have not gone anywhere and it would have been a lot harder for me to learn and explore on how this world functions.This short needs to be seen by everyone and is very underrated.

Best filme ever made about parental narcisism, not only the mother is, but where is the father of this child? Abandoment is also violence.

This is selflishness we should let our children grow and find their ways in life unless there is no mental health problem.If there is, we should care them all life through against any bullying or cruelty..As life is a cycle if we care them well they may care us too in our old days but you will never know what life brings..

Y ' all need to do part 2 I want to see him grieving and raising his family

No matter how much you are attached to someone, or if you want to get it, the 'strong bond' between you and that person will somehow disappear... Because that's the reality of life, the universe is built on it ... My favorite animation channel!!

A importância de cortamos o cordão umbilical nas nossas relações, caso contrário as neuroses se instalam. Parabéns pelo filme.

“I’m not crying my eyes are just doing a play!”

That was deep. This is what priests should be teaching future parents, as problem isn't just related to mothers in my opinion.

This also exists with fathers with their daughters. The cultural misogyny that encourages men's entitlement towards women's bodies, makes a lot of fathers hating the idea of their daughters getting into relationships. My father is a prime example, he really tried all he could to consiously sabotage my personal life. He is a 5yo in an adult's body and, in his mind, I had to take my mom's place after she died when I was 14, and take care of him and stay with him.

This video needs more exposure. It needs to go viral.

Госпади, сколько душевной боли. Даже на слезу пробило 😔 Этот фильм просто шидевр. вы большие молодца.

Not gonna lie, the mom in this short looks absolutely adorable

The mother isn't over protective but rather selfish and insecure. 🤣 She wants to keep someone under her control lifelong, someone to put on a leash and drag around like a pet animal. She denied him of his education, the companionship of other kids, a girl friend, a wife and a family of his own. I have seen parents who manipulate, blackmail emotionally and control their children lifelong. The invisible chord cleverly used by them is depicted here by the visible umbilical chord. We give birth to children but they are not our personal property nor our possession nor a pet 🐕 or 🐈

I'd personally say this is the epitome of being overprotective parents.

Ребята здорово показали! Молодцы! Классный фильм! И это не только про мальчиков. Живём с оглядкой на детей и родителей, чужими жизнями, избегая ответственности и прикрываясь "пуповиной". Забота о близких это про другое? Это про чем помочь, а не про куда пошел? Кто делает что-то нужное для себя, своего счастья, не взирая, как на это посмотрят родители (в основном мама) или ребенок? Большинство скажет: да нет, это не пуповина, эта забота о близких и прочие отговорки. Это и есть пуповина. Без нее Вы не тащите никого больше в свои отношения с другими людьми, неважно, общественные или романтичные. От слова вообще. Просто эта пуповина у кого-то подлиннее. Да я и сама грешна и как дочь, и как мама, хотя все порываюсь порвать, но как же без контроля-то! Тут пишут: "Про мою свекровь", а я больше чем уверена, что на зеркало неча пенять. Ребенок на пуповине сможет найти только такого-же пуповинного ребенка, чтобы было на кого свалить свою личную безответственность. Поэтому, если хочется свободного - стоит обрезать свою пуповину, тогда на другого и не потянет. Свободные люди создают свои общие узы и сразу движутся, куда хотят, там и родители не в обиде, и сами выбирают свой совместный путь без оглядки, и дети тоже просто в любви, а не под контролем. Те, кто еще связан с мамками пересекаются по пути мам, но потом у каждой мамы своя дорожка, и все разрывается, каждый же за собой пару тянет. А если пуповина длинная и не расходятся в разные стороны, то без конца выясняют отношения, о чью же мамку они споткнулись. А потом в этот клубок добавляются ещё и свои пуповинные дети, ну, надо же хоть где-то почувствовать себя властным. Как сейчас говорят, токсичные отношения. Кстати, ребята, возьмите как идею для нового фильма, денег не надо, буду рада, если просто в титрах упомянете. ;)

This shows how an unhealthy attachment of a mother and son can lead to sons inability to have his own happiness and loneliness and eventually lack of oxygen supply he was getting through the cord (unhealthy attachment). Mothers should learn to let go of their sons as they grow into young adults

О!!! Да просто вдребезги расплющило! Просто невозможно прекрасный фильм!!! Ну всё: сама пронзительная и до страшного типичная история. Трагедия и любовь в одном флаконе. И кАк это рассказано! А какая графика Sergiy Maidukov! Спасибо всем в пояс!

👏 A wise message deserving millions of views!

The baby crying at the end is soo sad :(

This video right here. Thank you for posting this. This video was the light at the end of my tunnel, the spark that started my awareness of the dysfunction I had gone through and today, I can tell you I made it to the other side, where the sun shines everyday and birds chirp in the morning. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

This was phenomenal and deserve more recognition.

Гениальный фильм! ...вдвойне гениально, поскольку тема давняя в искусстве и литературе… и новизна тут, и традиции, и преемственность стиля, и элементы авангарда…

Thanks everybody for you comments and thoughts. It is very important for us. We understand - our work is not in vain. We invite you to watch another film of our studio: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntZomdymrNernoE.html

मां और बच्चे की रिलेशनशिप बहुत ही गहराई में दिखाई गई है । बहुत ही अच्छी मूवी है । यह कहानी से हमें यह सीख मिलती है कि मां से बढ़कर कोई चीज नहीं होती । बीवी बच्चे दुनिया यह सब झूठे साथी है । मा ही बच्चे की असली साथी है

Dude Jordan Peterson would have a field day with this lol

Ребята, не останавливайтесь на психологических темах! Очень показательно! И очень понятно даже особо тупым. Я про свою мать, которая держит брата на такой пуповине. У неё была истерика после просмотра. Ну конечно, в своём глазу брёвна не хочет видеть.

This is called as Mother-Child addiction. It can be sorted out with counseling. This happens when: 1- The mother dies before baby gets 1 year old 2- The mother does not let the baby to decompose from her which starts when the baby is 6 months old If you have this problem because of one of the above conditions, I do strongly advise you to counsel a psychologist (a good and reliable one...).

This hit extremely close to home it's terrifying, but I'm working it out on therapy. Thank you so much for this piece of animation. Marvelous.

So true ... Many parents are obsessed from their childrens. Sad.

To anyone that likes this animation, I recommend you documentaries from Marcin Koszałka.

It showed my whole life , my parents did the same never let me go free , and didnt had any choice to remain due to money problems

Життєвий мультик українського режисера Бубнова!!! Просто супер!

If you guys are interested I recommend the Canadian animation "Old Fangs" (2009). It's another point of view, and this time, about a father-and-son relationship. Along with this one, my favorite short animations ever.

이 영상을 보고 아주 많은걸 느꼈습니다.. 삶에 대해서 다시한번 생각해보기도 했고 저의 과거를 돌아보고 부모님과의 관계 여러가지로 생각이 많아지게 하는 영상인 것 같습니다.. 6분 길다면 길고 짧다면 짧은 시간동안 저에게 잊혀져있던 감정과 기억, 추억을 떠올리게 해주셔서 정말 감사하고 또 이러한 복잡하고도 심오한 감정을 느끼게 해주셔서 이런 영상을 만들어 주셔서 진심으로 감사드립니다. 항상 응원합니다..!❤🎉

I’m a teenager now and my mom doesn’t even lemme go in the drive way myself so I can relate to this alot

So because of moms overprotection they both lost life’s, son didn’t even got married, mom died (because she got old) But I just have a question: why did mom pretend being dead?

Umm, what just happened ? She's so possessive, poor boy.

Who would do that but thats a life hack in reality you really have to cut the cord

Bravo to the people that were inspired and created such a piece of art reaching most depths between the mother/child relationship.

I think that the cord symbolizes the mother's protection or "attatchment" to her son, since at the first parts, the son was bullied for being treated pike a baby in my opinion. Attatchment is not bad at all, but everything should be in moderation.

This is incredible and in an animation WOW it has deep meaning tears ran down my eyes after learning how we mothers sacrifice and expect so much from our kids but in the end we should just let them leave their lives and be happy for them but first we need to be happy for us

I can relate to this a lot. But just a bit different. The thing is that my mother let me and wants me to go out, have friends, be independent and all but then it's me, who don't want to do these things as it doesn't excite me. I had best friends before but then they all left me eventually. I can be my myself around her only and doesn't need change myself like I need to be infront of others. I'm glad to have a mother like her. And even if one day she leaves me I still will and can be alone. Because people always dissapoints. This is a very mindful video. Kudos to the creator. I liked it alot. ❤

This clearly represents a mother who wants to hold on to her son forever unlike in most cases, the son would want to rely on HER forever. 1:44 Ayo 😳

Fajna animacja, dźwięk idealnie wpisuje się w ten klimacik. :)

THE CORD we all have cords when we were born

Thats called life❤😒

Sadly I have to admit this is me at the age of 44 still with the cord attached to my mom... not good at all

Mỗi bậc phụ huynh sẽ mãi luôn yêu thương và nuôi dạy con cái của mình một cách hoàn hảo nhất. Nhưng khi người con đến một độ tuổi trưởng thành cần phải biết tự giác, có tính tự lập tốt,..... chính vì điều này người con sẽ tạo được sự yên tâm cho bố mẹ. Vì thế mỗi gia đình cần phải giáo dục, rèn luyện con cái của mình biết được những đức tính và kỹ năng sống từ rất sớm, để sau này người con có thể báo hiếu được cho bố mẹ và tự xây dựng cho bản thân một mái ấm gia đình nhỏ và từ đó chu kỳ này vẫn sẽ luôn được tiếp diễn 💪❤

Love isn’t controlling or egotistic. Sadly many people mistake love for control and toxicity. Oftenly forgets that love also needs FREEDOM. 😢

Wait nooo, I wanted a happy ending for him 😔

Award winning presentation.. Concept.. Every thing... Mean... I want to appreciate to the Maker... But I dnt have the words who can show my feelings.. What I m feeling about u..i can just imagine how much emotionally sensitive the maker is..n also I want to say thank to u.. Cz.. U chooses this topic..u keep it short.. N thats why I cnt keep my short in Apriciation.. God bless u Maker 👏🙏

Hope everyone sees why it is so important to cut the ambilocal card from the child, just look at what the child missed out on.

I cried at the end 😭

i love the animation style in this

Incredible, my congratulations to all the people who worked on this amazing creation 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

O‘zbekistondan shunaqa onalar borligi uchun oilalar ajralmoqda yaxshi narsa chiqaribsizlar rahmat!

A perfekt short film....

The cord's just a metaphor for the possessive yet toxic attachment the two have with each other. The lack of independence in either's life leads to trouble in the end. And I got the feeling the mother's long dead and he already sees it himself the moment the last string is used. Not to mention, he was able to buy an adult magazine and got away with it.

Masterpiece....the message is deep.

A life changing animation! A masterpiece!

I cut off my in-laws for having this situation going on. The mother isn't even single. We can't have it around our own children.

Found this on tiktok and am here to see the whole story

Жызненное. Большой привет моей бывшей свекрови. Вывесила на фейсбуке

This video makes me cry🥹🥹

An excellent depiction of morbid dependence which does not allow neither Mom nor child to live fulfilled. A double tragedy.

My son sent me this video he is 14 years old and I also have a two-year-old son I am guilty of this and I’ve read some of the comments and it describes me and my relationship with my children I don’t know what to do to let them go. When they go away for the weekend to spend time with family or friends I have anxiety attacks I tried to tell them everything to do and I think it’s parenting but in many ways I am very overprotective of my kids because of things that has happened to me in the past and because I feel like if something was to ever happen to them I don’t know if I can live without either of them if there is something that can help me without making me feel like I’m not a mother I would love for someone to help us or to give me some advice

Piękna opowieść dająca do myślenia. Pozdrawiam!

Thanks to the youtube algorithm, I discovered this masterful short film

Well, I agree she sacrificed everything but don't you think she overly controlled his life and never let him grow his way? I love my mother, I definitely do. But being parents doesn't mean that you can prevent them from flying. It suffocating, very painful and it suffocate me everytime.

Did anyone come here from the RESPECT video?

The moral of the story, don't be an over protective mothers because when you did your child won't know his/her meaning of life

This is heartwarming

I want to cry watching this video😢 i from indonesia

This was so good... wow

Here's my short and meaningful message "Nothing last Forever"

When the cord powdered my heart broken😓😓😥😢😭💓 now I know what a mother's love is

I actually cried watching this video but because of, if the mother actually dies the son has no one keeping him company for a few examples, the scene when the mom finds a strand of white hair, and the scene when they were both watching tv and the son suddenly left, to me, the mom looked very sad and just wanted to have quality time with her son but he suddenly left. I do agree that the mom should've just cut the cord but yea. And at the end it looked that the mom was struggling very much and if she did cut the cord she would'nt have any one to take care of her. Anyway that's just my opinion soo..