What A24 LAMB'S Ending Means
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- LAMB (2021) is the latest A24 film. A fantasy/horror inspired by Icelandic folklore, the film explores themes of grief and loss when a childless couple of sheep farmers discovers a member of their flock has given birth to a lamb-human hybrid.
The feature film debut from Valdimar Jóhannsson, he probes his subject matter methodically and subtly, leaving much more for us to interpret the events that unfold.
In typical A24 fashion, LAMB is a strange trip into the depths of a wonderfully eccentric story.
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I saw parallels between the new Ada and the original Ada. It seems that Marie had an affair with Petur years ago, which resulted in a child. Ingvar knew what had happened, but pretended he didn't. After they lost this child, Ingvar chose to pretend like Ada never existed. But Marie can't live in fantasy as easily as Ingvar. She's the one who always takes care of the dirty work in their lives.
When the second Ada comes, Marie happily accepts her as the gift of a second chance, but it's even harder to cover up the lie of Ada's origin this time. Marie is forced to deal with the real mother, after which Petur appears. He's a spector of the truth that can't be denied, but even he willingly plays along with the fantasy of Ada being his niece, at least for a time. Marie probably had to drive him away some time after the first Ada came, too.
In the end Ingvar is shot in the throat (because he always keeps silent about what he knows), the second Ada is taken away by the truth, and Marie is left to deal with the aftermath alone, much as she did with her first child. The story comes full circle.
Fascinating take! I had wondered about Petur's overly forwardness towards Maria and audacity to do that to his brother.... as it continued I was trying to figure out if he had purpose to the overall story and this makes a lot of sense!
Thank you. Interesting and insightful.
the way you describe it makes the plot interesting, just a shame that the writer fucked it up and made this movie ridiculous
*Maria
This is a ridiculously concis, incisive and insightful take on the film. I literally just watched it and came looking for other's opinions and I feel like you nailed it. I didn't consider that Peotr (sorry, Iceland) could have been the original child's father but that nugget really adds so much context
Without seeing any trailers or reading about the film, only being recommended to see it by a friend, I had no expectations and was absolutely blown away by the ending. At first I thought they were imagining the humanness of the lamb bc of their grief around lost child. So when the actual birth father of the baby lamb shows up and does to the father what the mother did to the birth mother sheep.....just WOW. Well done! Dark fairytale quality and beautiful cinematography add to this incredible twisted film.
I’m guessing the dad was watching them the whole time
@Cairo Medhat Yes after a second watch there are a few scenes where you can hear him breathing nearby!!
Totally agree 👍🏻
Best way to see a film, I wish I’d seen it knowing absolutely nothing! Those of us who were drawn to see it from the trailer couldn’t help but feel let down!
@@dbgreene9020 What? Are you serious? I just finished watching it and I didn't notice his breathing. Do point out the scenes where you heard him, please! It's even creepier to think that the real father was surrounding the family the entire time
I love Ada so much i cried the whole time, she's ADORABLE
She's such a good lamb 😭💕
But she's aware that she's not like her foster parents. (Several mirror scenes)
And she clearly loved her human parents yet you could tell that she could understand that she’s different. She didn’t want to leave Ingvar at the end. That almost made me tear up.
At first I was really disturbed because I didn't know what direction the movie was going in. I thought she was gonna grow up and murder the parents but since she was actually innocent, I cried at the end 😢
she's an animal
I believe our first exposure to the Goat-Man is in the very first scene when we are shown a figure entering the barn and a heavy breathing is heard but no clear figure is seen. After our second exposure (when ada sees him outside the home after he kills the dog) we can hear the same heavy breathing and can actually see the reflection of the Goat-Man in her eye.
Edit: Yes, I just rewatched the opening 4 minutes of the movie. The first shot of the wild horses running away from the source of the heavy breathing, opening to the shot of the distant home and barn shows that the source of the heavy breathing is 1. big enough to scare a whole band of wild horses and 2. the source of the breathing was coming from the mountain top-indicated by the father at the end of the movie whilst he is walking Ada in that direction, towards the mountain peaks, the fish, and the Goat-Man.
Thanks for clarifying! Much appreciated!
"Ram-man" not "goat-man".
Beggining is Baphomet making Ram pregnant
I saw that scene as the time when he impregnated the sheep.
When Petur fed grass to Ada I gasped, like her humanity was at steak
This film takes you to a place where our ineptitude in dealing with loss makes one's emptiness feel like physical weight. Slowly weighing one down to feel only quiet desperation. Maria is constantly looking around her surroundings trying to protect Ada like she already knows that this new fulfillment Ada brings her is not going to last.
Absolutely one of the best films in a long time.
Simple. Mystical. Profound. Strange.
"Lamb" deserves many Oscar mentions.
Absolutely fucking not
@@stylesmarshall6990 You don't need to be mean. Everyone draws their own feelings and thoughts from each movie. I definitely didn't think it was the best, especially for A24. But like always, combing through the comments gave me a better understand and appreciation for the movie.
Imo, It's a cautionary tale about not accepting and moving on! The mother bewitched everyone into a fantasy where Ada was still their child, and all was well. She drove out anything that could threaten her idyllic family life, and in the end, that building misery of her past and regrets was what sole her happiness away
I agree with the assessment that this film is about grief and how people process that grief especially parents who have lost a child, a loss that many deem unnatural. It's in this vein that I find myself feeling most sorry for Ada's bio mother. Firstly, that humanoid Ram thing is so terrifying to all the other animals, why? There is a sense of something otherworldly and insidious about him. We can infer from that that he takes advantage of Ada's mom. For that to happen and then lose her offspring to the couple is so unfair and cruel. Despite the circumstances she cannot fight her maternal instincts, and so we find another parallel between human Mom and Sheep Mom. At the end, Ada is the real victim. Regardless of the circumstances, she has been stripped of a life with people or animals that actually love and care for her. I get the sense that Ada's Dad is acting on feelings of vengeance and ownership more so than love and affection. Her fate is uncertain and ultimately very disturbing.
It's awesome to be able to see things from all perspectives, even that of Ada's biological mother. I think you said it beautifully! Thanks for sharing! .
I’d like to think of Ada going to a place of people who will understand her and be able to communicate with her better. It’s the only way I can deal with it honestly
Omg, your explanation is so good. I cried when she shot the mom sheep 😢😢
Doubt that the father loves the mother he just used her
It definitely was underwhelming because it was advertised totally different than what it was, but I thought it was a great film. Cinematography was fantastic, acting was pretty good, even though I felt like the bother didn’t really add much to the story itself.
The Icelandic volcanic mountain backdrop appeared as a secondary character, looking over the farming family life.
This was a great video! I just watched this movie, and though I enjoyed it I was left with questions. Mainly about the significance of the brother in all of this. I think your take on the brother being an escape into a normal life makes a lot of sense and fills the void that this movie left me. I was also relieved to hear that other people has the same issues as me with this movie. Keep up the high quality content!
There's a whole genre that I basically call "it's about grief" where the whole movie is quiet, slow, and methodical and fundamentally about how people process grief. Some movies (Hereditary) do it really well, but there's a lot of movies like this one that basically know few people would see a movie that was ONLY that so they layer on an absurd or horror-based element that they use to draw people in.
The problem is that Lamb doesn't really have anything in the animal metaphor. It's a story of people so hungry for healing that they embrace an absurd situation and even piss off nature, but it's just weird for the sake of weird. The director brushes it away by claiming it's a message about how people should respect nature, but "grief is hard" and "nature should be respected" are full cliché at this point. It's just not enough to be actually deep.
Also, somehow the most unrealistic thing in the movie is that nobody asked the husband if he f&@ked the lamb.
Anyway, great video. Well written.
Thank you for sharing your opinion!
It's funny that you mentioned that about the husband because that's what I was thinking at first was going to be revealed knowing they lost their child and it seemed that the affection in their relationship had stopped so possibly the husband turned to the farm animals lmao... a very sick thought but we're talking about a half lamb half human baby and the wife or the husband didn't question once how it came to be...😂🤣
I definitely agree. I thought I was alone in this one - I was like.. So a humanoid lamb, erhm.
>it's about how people should respect nature
>film focuses on a supernatural, ie. outside of nature, occurrence
They just needed a an excuse for when people told them that their final product doesn't work as intended.
@@redpill.world2475 right? I thought they were supposed to be imagining the lamb's human side, due to their extreme isolation and grief, and that the brother was reacting to them keeping a lamb as a child. When the spooky monster they kept hinting at turned out to be a literal Baphomet and the lamb's dad, it lost any potential meaning.
I interpreted it as the parents kidnapping a child to replace theirs. The child is obviously not theirs, perhaps different race, features, hair, etc. Hence the lamb, out of place and clearly not theirs. They killed the mom who went after them trying to save her. The brother gets scared because he realized what they've done. Out of panic, fear for his brother or anger of seeing his ex lover go crazy he tries to get rid of the child (evidence). But in the end, the father ram man catches up and rescues his daughter from an insane couple. They didnt hurt the child so she's confused, scared and perhaps going through some sort of stockholm syndrom.
This is definitely an interesting way of looking at it!
I’m mostly upset at the couple and even if they lost their child, it’s no excuse for taking another’s child
Thank you for comment
I think they should have leaned harder into the grief of losing their child. In some ways this film didn’t lean hard enough into some of its themes and came off as too minimalistic at times.
Over all I loved it. It wasn’t a mind fuck but it was weird yet strangely sweet in a way. I like this one a lot. Could have been a little better but still a winner.
8/10
At about 5:06 your background music is out-of-control. I couldn't even hear what you were saying.
The distorted chiming sound you use as a background is so loud around minute 5 onward that I have trouble hearing you. Really like your content :-)
My apologies for that. I’ll make sure to correct that in the future. Appreciate your feedback!
Your writing is fantastic. Descriptive and well spoken. Your video needs work. The images don’t match what you’re talking about and just replays the same images over and over again for 10 mins. Also, your music over powers your voice in spots.
Thank you for the honest feedback! It helps tremendously as I try to improve my content. Truly appreciate it!
@@RenegadeFilm86 no problem. I like your style and your writing is fantastic
You're incredible at this. You explained this so well and so beautifully
I appreciate this. I watched it just now with quite an uncritical eye. Not purposefully, especially considering I wanted to catch it for the past 6 months. But because I was not expecting it to be a jarring experience. I took almost nothing away from the ending, and almost nothing about this video really shed light on that but it got me thinking in a frame I hadn't been occupied in before. Satisfying video. Good synopsys. Great spoiler avoidance. You earned yourself a sub, gaht damnsit.
The way I interpreted it was that after the loss of their child the mother comes into the delusion and basically what the video said. But the ram man killing the father was actually him committing suicide because his wife disappeared with his brother making him think that there was an affair
No he died because the wife killed the Mother and took away from the Ram Man. So to even the playing field he took away what she loved.
@Hard knocks Montage What?
@Hard knocks Montage there nothing to rwoosh about
He said woosh because the original comment was a theory. And the first response was trying to argue about a theory.
This is one of those films that has a deeper message to it.
This film has everything to do with perspective and an individual's pursuit of happiness; nonetheless, themes/features regarding perspective in the film are replete: 1) is the lamb a child or an animal? 2) the reference to time travel. google: Time perspective theory and read up on this topic if you would like. 3) the emanating glow of the lambs' eyes (vision is perspective and changes from individual to individual or lamb to human in this case) 4) the positioning of the camera, from far away to close up, in the house, outside of the house, etc. and 5) the number of reflections in the film ( for example, the first showing of the beast via ada's eye).
Yes, you're supposed to pursue happiness; however, there can and will be ramifications in doing so. I.e. there are limits to one's pursuit of happiness. Maria never took into consideration the happiness of the lamb (ada's biological mother) by 1) taking the lamb/child away to raise ada as her own 2) taking ada's mother's life in a selfish action/revenge killing.
As this movie pertains to the current zeitgeist, humans are pursuing happiness, but at the expense of the environment. These ramifications grow ever so dire as the days pass.
Other thoughts I had about the movie:
This film is very subtle and done very well. Overall, not a film for everyone especially those with short attention spans. This film reminds me of the first half hour of 2001 a space odyssey as they both contain little dialogue.
this is why you shouldn't watch trailers, I watched not knowing anything but 'there's a lamb'. When the creature showed up i was shocked, i enjoyed it!
This is the best review about "Lamb". Thank you for a job well 👍 done.
Thank you!
I liked this movie . A24 movies I will see whenever they come out because of the creativity, and the story lines which hollyweird is incapable of producing anymore.
Wow! Very good video bro. I felt exactly the same way.
Appreciate it!!
I enjoyed listening to your review! My only complaint was that at some parts it was hard to understand what you were saying because of the music in the background.
Thank youu, this helped me understand a lot
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
1000th follower, really enjoyed this breakdown
"no glimpse beforehand" ? you didnt see the reflection of the beasts in the eyeball?
well made review though!
The Cat: "You don't belong her, but I still like you"
The Dog: "You scare me, but I shall protect you"
The Half man Half sheep:
EYE FOR AN EYE B****!!!!!!!!! YOU YEETED MY BABY MOMMA!!!!!! IMA YEET YOUR HUSBAND, AND TAKE MY CHILD TOO!!!!!!
Basically haha.
Dog ded to
I’ve watched a few of these recaps and no one is mentioning the very last scene of the movie. When Maria finds Ingvar and she’s crying hysterically she suddenly and inexplicably stops crying and looks over her shoulder in the direction that the lamb-man and Ada traveled. In her eyes appeared to be “recognition”. In that moment did she understand what happened? No one seems to know but that’s how it translated to me.
She definitely realized what happened. Her husband got killed with a weapon, not by an animal attacking him. Who else could have done that but the lamb's daddy. She was punished by being left with nothing in the end. But still, the lamb daddy started the whole show, but evil has no boundaries I guess, because he was definitely some kind of corrupted lamb god or just Satan, can't escape your faith kinda thing, Idk. :)
@@viktoriyarts I agree with you except about the idea that the lamb-daddy was evil. I didn’t interrupt his actions as evil at all. She killed the lamb-mommy and stole her child. He was just getting his baby back…by any means necessary! I’m not mad at that at all!
@@dynamicpisces Sure thing, eye for an eye, but he was scary nonetheless, I’m not sure if he’s going to take better care of the child lol, but that’s not the point here anyways.
@@viktoriyarts He totally looked scary but that doesn’t mean he’s evil but yea sure would like to see how they’re going to live but hey that’s not for me to say!😃🙈. Thanks for responding tho!🥰
@@dynamicpisces It's fine, I watched it recently and was just reading about it, so you're welcome ^^
Bro deserves much more subs.
Thank you that means a lot!
Bro, what is with that NOISE in the background??
I actually see Peturs advanced on Maria as a parallel for taking what’s not yours.
I watched the first 30 min not knowing subtitles were an option lol. Made it more eery honestly.
Great video so well explained it really is like I just watched the movie
Fantastic video, man! :)
Thank you!
Great video 🙌🏻
Let's take it from the top. Christmas, lamb, born in a barn, "a new beginning", BTW what happens at the end of the Jesus story? His dad decides to take him back, the trailer has "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys in it- did I mention that Rapace's character is "Maria". You need to go back and watch this again- while your point may be valid you missed what the movie was about.
Maria had a little lamb
I do think the movie can be interpreted as a metaphor for surrogacy: the protagonists use a lamb to gestate the child and when the biological mothers reclaimes the child Maria literally ends her. However, this theory doesn't make sense since the father appears at the end, so maybe it's an absurdistic tale about an adoption gone wrong.
More like kidnapping than surrogacy..
Because I'm thinking so much on taking the decision of wehter have a subroogated child, I thought I was projecting that idea ito the film but maybe is not.
I subrroagted child would maybe have the same identity disruption of the sheep. The film could totally be the abstractio of a subrrogted child and contradictive desires of returning to their biological parents.
Yeah, I thought that too
He was father or....brother?
I feel like lamb dad was once under the humans care before ada (or new them someway) and grew up hateful towards them… because the way they reacted to a half human/lamp hybrid being born was way to casual..so aba was definitely not the only time they seen one ….AND for some reason it seemed like they were expecting one to be born…I know director wanted to leave ending for interpretation..but man he didn’t give us SHIT to really work with lol..
A bit Planet of the Apes?
Alguém pod me dizer em q canais consigo asistir o filme completo dublado
Great review! It was a slowburner, but worth the $5.99 I paid for it on Amazon.
I was 💯 blown away by this movie. Loved it. Perfect A24 film.
Very unusual movie in that there is very little dialogue until their guest arrives and consequently you have to sort through many things on your own. [It can be done!]
You did really good in this analysis. Thank you
After chaos, an affair, loss of child, she finally starts to feel connected to farming life (embodied by half-human lamb child). The brother shows up and reminds her of life, lust, normalcy. Ada leaves and her husband commits suicide, or is emotionally devastated when he puts it together that she must have been sleeping with his brother.
Hm. What you described as "grueling tasks and responsibilities" looked to me when seeing the movie as one version of heaven.
"we missed the conflict but there was the mother and there was the brother"
so I don't think It was missed
it was fine to me
What it all means is A24 are building their animal cinematic universe where Lamb and First cow are the Avengers and Black Phillip is the overarching antagonist.
10/10 this movie. You're best watching with a completely open mind
Thank you
I think Maria is the antagonist and the Lamb child and the Ram father at the end are the true protagonists and the sheep mother who Maria shot dead was a victim.
This makes the most sense & it's weird more people don't see María as the villain?
Love this movie!!!
The whole time I thought the husband cheated on his wife with a sheep!🤣
backround music at 4:49 is way too loud could barely hear you
I've seen it 5 times, and each time, I get a new "ohhhhhhhh!!!" meaning ofvthej c symbolism that I didn't catch the few other times!!!6👍👍👍
What is the name of the folktale this is based on?
The closest English pronunciation of the brother's name is good old "Peter." And, it's very obvious that Peder and Maria were lovers at some point in the past, possibly back during their youthful band days.
I was confused about why the dog was killed and then ada showed up with a cat. I think the idea that it was a sheep dog was why it was killed, adding to the idea of man taking over nature. I'd imagine an animal bred by humans to control sheep would really rub a Ram Man the wrong wy.
means "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"
Ada creeps me out her dad too, just so unnatural
Did we need the loud background music? 🫤
as a mom who lost a child, u think she would have shared the baby lamb with its mother. that needed to be in this film. then maybe by the end of the movie have something like this happen. it makes no sense like this. she clearly knows the pain that comes with that type of loss. ITS VERY LAZY WRITING
Just stumbled upon it and watched it knowing nothing about it. Incredible movie.
For a second I forgot the difference between a sheep and a goat it made me question life
I loved this movie.
You love falling asleep when watching it? Because that’s how boring this movie is.
Katla on netlfix had this feeling too
great insight all the way through but man you gotta pay attention to that audio...music is sometimes way louder than your voice
Will do! Thank you for the feedback
Had to click off halfway through because of the background noise, just too loud. I love your videos, and I know I’m late on this one. Just some feedback.
I'm no bible expert, but when The Beast visits on Christmas, does this not feel like some sort of interpretation of the birth of Christ?
The protagonist's name is Maria and much like the Virgin Mary, she raises the child of something supernatural that she did not birth herself.
Ingvar is a farmer/shepherd/carpenter feels much like Joseph, father to Christ.
Ingvar's brother is name Petur (Peter), the name of the Christ's most trusted apostle.
good notice.
Nice vid, but I would really suggest toning down the background music. Especially at 5:12 and onward it becomes way too present and starts to overpower your narration.
Oh look, they’re getting ready for MIDSOMMAR
Love ur videos man but please refrain from using this background audio/ eerie tune, when it starts ringing it’s too loud and literally blocks out your voice, it’s really hard to listen
The background music to your video completely ruins it, it’s is way too loud
The goat-man kinda reminded me of Willie Nelson
this movie trailer is completely scam. They tagged movie for SF and horror but it's not at all
Well i think this movie really workss.... , My theory is, ingvar and maria once lost their child. We didn't know the child was dead or just lost. But if. If the child was just "lost". Well maybe somehow their child grew up in wilderness and having some intercourse with "lamb" and then giving birth to what we saw at the end of the movie, the real father of ada. So it does make sense tho. Why there are lamb - human hybrid.
Strong The Witch and Gretel & Hansel vibes
Bro the music is so god damn loud.
I really wondered what made you add the strange annoying chiming sounds in this video. It wasn’t a good choice at all.
Who actually is Ram man father of Ada ? 🐐
this movie should've been a short film tbh
Don’t You have the feeling that Ada was a sister to the big hybrid man? I think that Ingvar was a father to Ada ( just look at the scene with the lamb laying in the byre… ). In my opinion unstable Maria, after she lost the child, was suggesting Ingvar to make the sexual intercourse with the main lamb, a mother.
The first born was a boy - the final hybrid from the movie - but they reject him because of his gender. Maria wanted to have the daughter anyway, no matter what. So he’s back. He’s back at the end of the movie, to kill Ingvar in a revenge of killing the lamb-mother, and take Ada with him to make Maria suffer. Who gave Maria a right to kill someone who gave a birth? This is all about it.
This is what I also made of this movie. Ingvar is the dad to both the grown ram guy and Ada
1. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross "5 Stages of Grief" (1969) is a model of grief much superseded by post-structuralist models of grief and bereavement. Grief is not linear & sequential . Please get with the times if you are going to play with models of trauma and grief.
2. Killing sheep for meat: lamb & mutton is a seasonal enterprise for the Icelandic sheep wool & meat industry. Usually there are not karmic implications for killing a mother ewe.
3. Lambs are often taken away from mothers after childbirth to reduce imprinting/early attachment formation & mother sheep, ewes, don't grieve for that disrupted attachment to their lambs for months on end. The grieving mother ewe , outside the kitchen window is totally unrealistic.
4. Interesting to understand was Ada born with a sheep's brain or a human brain. The cranial capacity of a sheep's skull would not allow for a human brain. The movie implied that Ada had a high degree of human cognition & that human activities of daily living could easily be nurtured within Ada.
5. Noomi Rapace (Maria) has a great reputation as an action heroine in her past movies. The ending left us feeling ambivalent if there was scope for a sequel of Maria retrieving Ada from her biological father ram/man.
6. The issue of inter-species crossing is a pandora's box of ethics, science & fantasy could be great content for a sequel of whether Ada's biological father was a science experiment near a Scandinavian Nuclear Power Station gone rogue & gone wrong.
7. The horror of inter-species crossing was explored in "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896) by H.G. Wells & the movie "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1977 ).
Background music super distracting to what you’re saying, I found myself listening more to the sounds rather than your voice
Will work on that, truly appreciates the feedback!
A24 films should make a plush of that lamb. I would buy it the same way they did with a bear in a cage.
Yo, lower the volume of the music Jesus Christ.
Yet again I'm seeing tons of comments referring to the ram/human hybrid as a "goat-man". Why? Do those people think that male sheep are goats? I just find it odd that so many people are calling the character a "goat-man".
was like Magical Realism literary style
HIS NAME IS PETER, NOT PET-HER. SAME AS THE ENGLISH NAME, BUT WITH AN ACCENT. but it is VERY OBVIOUS TO MOST PEOPLE that peter, and the brother's wife had an affair in the past in the scene where they are going thru the garage and peter finds the drum set, they find an old recliner, PETER SAYS - WOW ALOT GREAT MEMORIES IN THAT CHAIR. they had some type of thing at 1 point in the past
There’s a lot missed in this video essay
That dog and cat are like WTF?
are u tryin to blow my air drumbs !!
No mention of the dog?
You mispronounced the directors name at the start of the video as Vladimir instead of Valdimar. Otherwise great video
Thank you for the correction! And thanks for watching!
that background noise YIKES horrible can bearly hear ya
I don't think the guy who came in the trunk of a car thrown away by 3-viking-haired icelandic mobs into the midlle of the frigid outskirts is exactly maria's "rational choice" tbh
This movie is like , The Three Women.
Lammmmmmmmb!!!