Lorenzo Pushing Child

A short, mustached dad in a sailor cap stands on a stone seawall, arms flung out mid-follow-through, while a small child flies off the edge toward the water. Behind him, his wife watches with mild interest. Nobody seems alarmed. That kid is simply gone now.

In the movie, Lorenzo is a sea monster disguised as a human, and he's dunking kids in the water to see which one turns out to be his son. Out of context it looks like a man yeeting a stranger's child into the sea with zero hesitation, and that is how everyone uses it.

You label the dad as whoever's doing the discarding and the kid as whatever's getting discarded. Me and my New Year's resolutions. Spartans and their weaker babies, which became its own whole genre. Any time something gets thrown away fast, coldly and without a second look, Lorenzo is there with his arms out.