good luck convincing your wife you didn't bang a sheep
I'm pretty sure the farmers wife would be suspicious as hell when a sheep gives birth to a lamb/human hybrid! That human DNA got in there somehow.
share*SPOILERS*
He doesn't. A hybrid lamb/man creature goes into their stable one night and bangs one of the sheep which results in the hybrid being born.
So where'd the hybrid sheep/man creature come from, then?
Yeah, that's where.
Keep climbing that family tree until you find the original farmer who banged the sheep.
shareMaybe a sheep banged a woman?
In the movie, there isn't any indication that this came about because of someone fucking a sheep somewhere in the past. The HOW isn't explained or explored.
Which leaves us free to make the worst possible assumptions ...
shareDefinitely a woman got banged by a sheep or rather forced it to, a reverse rape if you will. How do I know? I've seen enough bestiality, DUH! Women just love animal dick.
shareWTF Jesus Christ this movie must be weird ASF
shareit is.
and it is fully committed to the bit. they do not waver or wink at the camera.
unfortunately, i found it a bit too ponderous.
it's definitely in that 'the witch'/'a ghost story' zone of slow-moving story telling. and i loved both of those movies.
i didn't find this one to be nearly as effective. it's just a little too glacial and it's just not as interesting in its ideas and premise to me.
worth a look, certainly. other people seem to dig it.
and maybe it'll grow on me. i'm literally just back from the theatre.
Yeah, I didn't quite feel that this movie really did much with its own premise. And at least movies like vvitch steadily snowball. This movie, outside a few admittedly very suspenseful sequences, was pretty much laidback. When the credits rolled, I was just like okay. I guess if it's seen like a modern fairy tale type film, it kinda works but again, but I don't think actual movie is interesting enough.
It's really just about two parents and a new kid for the most part, with random brother-in-law shenanigans.
I could come up with a few interpretations of the mother, but I'd just be forcing the movie into something deep.
i just read a review by one of my favourite movie writers (sonny bunch), & i'm curious to hear what you think of what he says about the ending of the movie.
it didn't really strike me at the time, but now that i've read his comments, it does feel like the ending of the movie is just a bit literal, doesn't it?
mild spoilers below for anyone who hasn't seen it.
https://www.thebulwark.com/lamb-review/
"I won’t describe that finale here, except to say that I found it confoundingly literal in a way that I wasn’t quite expecting. There’s not much in the way of nuance or mystery, which has the weirdly counterintuitive effect of obscuring this modern folk fable’s message, and a fable without a message isn’t much of a fable. It was not precisely clear to me what we are supposed to learn from Maria and Ingvar’s decision to take Ada into their home, whether the price they pay for tampering with nature is earned or arbitrary.
As someone who quite likes down notes and being left on them, I don’t think the bummer of an ending is why Lamb left me cold. At least not entirely. Again, my issue here might just be how starkly literal the imagery was and how goofy that imagery struck me as being. But then, the whole thing is slightly goofy, and if the goofiness hadn’t bothered me up until that point, then I don’t think the problem is my ability to suspend disbelief.
Whatever the reason, the ending of Lamb didn’t really land for me, and that failure to bring it all home in a satisfying way undercuts the rest of the picture’s great beauty. I will be very curious to see how audiences react to it."
I really liked how the article broke things down. The writer highlighted much of what I did appreciate the movie but also how the ending pretty much let him down. And I don't think I could have phrased it much better than that: the ending was a bit "literal".
It took away the imagination. I'm not sure why it didn't do a similar shot as the prologue of the film. Maybe it justified the usage of the gun? Or maybe it cemented that what Maria did was a crime—it humanizes the victim. But then in doing so, it takes away our ability to even conjecture that maybe the child isn't actually hybrid. (Actually, I was toying with this early on, but I vaguely remember something in the movie making it me think that it was impossible to be anything other than a hybrid.)
Regardless, it also continues my original issue with the rest of the film; the rest of the movie comes off as very "normal", relegating the titular lamb as some of gimmick.
The skeleton of the movie is very simply as such (quasi spoilers ahead):
-mom takes child for herself
-mom kills child's mother
-mom and dad raise child.
-mom deals with sexual tension with dad's bro
-mom sends dad's bro away after bro blackmails her
-child's father kills dad
-mom is now totally alone: no husband, no lover, no child
There isn't enough of the lamb stuff for there to be something interesting and symbolic about it. There's not enough concrete about it (because the movie clearly doesn't care enough about it, which is fine). So when the ending comes off like that, it's like...so is this normal in this world? Do we get to know more? Was there any purpose in this being a lamb to begin with? Why didn't the father comes sooner?
I feel scenes like the prologue and the scary sheep dream (which I understand has value to the story itself because it's what scares Maria into action) just end up being deceptive because there is no real payoff with that ending.
Is this just a story about a desperate woman reaping what she sows?