You may not have noticed, but there’s a weirdly pervasive movie trope out there — that’s both pretty much invisible, and also nearly as old as film.
You can go all the way to Charlie Chaplin’s silent film The Kid, about a homeless man forced to care for an orphan (and even that same year’s My Boy, which stars the same child in a pretty much identical plot) to 1967’s The Two of Us, about a Jewish boy in 1940s France sent to live with an antisemitic uncle.
More recently, You can look at The Sixth Sense, Sling Blade, A Perfect World, About
