maternal anxiety

Her films like 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' intensely explore maternal guilt, psychological fragility, and the terror of protecting or failing one's child.

His works, particularly '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' and 'Beyond the Hills,' examine maternal desperation, sacrifice, and the suffocating weight of motherhood with unflinching realism.

Films like 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' weaponize maternal anxiety as a primal horror, exploring the paranoia, responsibility, and transgressive impulses at the heart of motherhood.