Since Lamb has been released, it has received a lot of mixed reviews. Some people have called it “shocking” and “disturbing.” What are they talking about? Lamb is a collection of short stories that explores the real world from an unusual perspective. It’s not shocking or disturbing at all! In this blog post, we will dive into Lamb and discuss why some people find it so unsettling.
What is the reason behind that reviews saying Lamb is disturbing?
In the movie “Lamb,” Maria and Ingvar are unhappy. They worry about their children. The movie is a thriller, and it deals with family and nature in Iceland. It is hard to find people who live in rural areas that have a frozen time. Most people don’t speak to each other and they never smile. The hardworking couple is happy. They work every day. They then take care of their farm animals, which are lambs, ewes, and horses. It looks like someone lost their dog. There are sad colors, cold skies, and scary sounds. The radio is playing Christmas music, but there is no happiness in the air. And someone in the wild wants to hurt the couple and is looking for their barn.
The movie is hard to watch, but it is worth seeing. The critic has a hard time writing about the movie. In the book Lamb, this creature is very cute and interesting to see. But it’s hard to find out what it looks like because the people who wrote the book hid her identity and only showed a little bit of her face. In that book, it is good to go without any knowledge of what will happen. It is a mix between folkloric psychodrama and chamber horror with something that falls in the middle of Robert Eggers’ work. The Witch and Ari Aster’s Midsommar are even better than these other titles. If you are too worried about spoilers, stop reading.
People who are still here: meet Ada, a sweetie-pie lamb. She is half human and half lamb. Some people helped her to make the movie, like with some computer stuff and real animals and kids. Maria and Ingvar welcome Maria into their house and they are very warm. You may not see what we see, but they don’t seem to care. They feed, bathe, and tuck her in like she is one of their family. Ingvar’s brother, Pétur, came to visit. He is close with Ingvar and he has a good relationship with his sister-in-law. It can be hard for people when their brother comes and they think that the relationship might be too close and it makes them mad.
What were fans expecting from Lamb?
The rivalry between the brothers in this book is very exciting. You will enjoy following it. But after a while, there is not much more to the story. The same could be said about the film’s big concerns about parenthood, grief, and mankind’s greedy domination of nature to protect their immediate interests. People who don’t care about animals should stay away from people who want to do something that hurts the animals. Co-writers Jóhannsson and Sjón do not have many deep ideas about these themes. But “Lamb” puts the problems on a backburner. It takes too long to explore them and instead focuses on the visuals and tone.
Still, the film has a sense of originality that is hard to shake and you will not want to look away from it. This makes up for the film’s lack of depth. The cinematographer Eli Sorenson is like the director Béla Tarr. They both make movies with mysterious scenes that are good for Halloween. The cinematography in “Lamb” is creepy and soulful, just like Noomi Rapace’s acting. “Lamb” is a bit of a mixed bag. It has some good things but it could have used some more scares.
What are the other details related to Lamb?
Director Valdimar Jóhannsson is playing with us. He is giving small bits of information so that we are not always on the same page. Eventually, the man in the movie lets down a curtain so we can see what is happening in the film. This makes it much more creepy and much sadder. The movie is very scary. There is one thing in the movie that makes it even worse. That thing always happens every time. It is not moving, but it looks like it is. The people who made the movie used special effects to make it look like something was moving when really nothing was happening at all. At the beginning of the passage, there is a funny comparison for how parents want to nurture. At the end of the passage, it feels like a fairy tale.
That doesn’t mean that everything else is bad. Other ingredients are good. They help bring out the exact feeling that Jóhannsson wants you to have. Another person joins this trio. He is a louche man who wears a leather jacket and turns out to be the husband’s brother. He first seems like he might be a threat to the couple’s new home. But then, it’s possible that he could be an ally. And in the end, we’ll have to see if he and his fellow humans will answer for what has happened. In this movie, a mother and her child get in a lot of trouble because they play with Mother Nature. If you mess with Mother Nature, she will make sure that you get in trouble back.