In the 2001 cinema classic Bubble Boy, Jake Gyllenhaal’s character, Jimmy, is forced by his mother to live inside a system of plastic tubes and bubbles, ostensibly because he was born without immunities. After the woman he loves leaves town to marry another man, Jimmy builds a portable bubble, escapes from his parents’ home, and follows his love from California to Niagara Falls to declare his feelings at her wedding. In the film’s climax, Jimmy removes his bubble, indicating that he would rather embrace his love and die than stay locked in his protective dome. However, it turns out he didn’t need the bubble at all; it was just part of an elaborate effort by his mother to protect him from the ubiquitous dangers in the world outside the bubble.