Review of Lamb

Lamb (2021)
6/10
This is A24!
16 November 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I realised that this is a controversial movie when I watched the trailer! This is A24 studio! If you like "Midsommar," you would like this one, too. I enjoyed "Midsommar" a lot including the ending credit.

One day, Maria and Ingvar who run a sheep dairy farm attended sheep's birthings, then a creature which is half man and half sheep was born. They named it "Ada" and decided to grow her as their child.

This is an introduction. But the first part was almost silence, so it made me dozed off. They communicate only by the eyes. Apparently they live in loveless marriage because of the depressed atmosphere. Suffering..

They're so weird. When the mysterious creature was born, they didn't talk about it at all. Even if the moment is when everybody would say "Disgusting! What is this?", they say nothing and just accept her.

While dozing off, they let her wear kid's cloth. I was wondering if I missed the story because I couldn't follow it.

However, Ingvar's brother, Petur, suddenly came to there. He seems to be a irresponsible person, but spoked for us when he met her.

"What is this?"

Handshaking! It means I miss nothing, doesn't it?

Actually, the couple is weird. Even if I take that they lost their own kid before into my consideration, I can't understand why they accepted Ada without much resistance.

However, strangely enough, the more I saw her whom I felt was creepy at first, the cuter she looked. Since the moment when I felt she was cute, I've recognised that she is an individual existence.

I laughed at the scene Petur fed the grass to Ada in hiding.

Some spoilers included below:

According to someone's review, the creature in the last scene is Faun or Satyros, a symbol of penis. Although I don't know what it is at the end, I feel it makes sense if it is either of them. Because there's a sex scene, and Maria granced at her belly with something in her mind in the last scene. It means that creature effected on sexual power of them?

At first, I guessed that Ingvar raped a sheep, afterwards Ada was born. So, I coundn't understand why Maria accepted her. Sorry for doubting, Ingvar! The reason is why I sadly heard of that raping sheep or goat actually happens in rural area.,

In the last scene, you know who is Ada's father. But, considering that sheep were scared of it in the first scene, that was also rape. That doesn't mean that someone like Faun is a sheep's ally.

Ada looked at herself on the mirror and the picture of sheep. Apparently she realised that she's different from the human parents. I wonder if she went back to her true home?
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