And while she ends the film questioning all she was taught, and defending the other women, I don’t see her as the “feminist heroine” the filmmakers meant her to be. For example, Selah has grown up in this cult. I also have an issue with the two main female leads. As a result the ending doesn’t offer any catharsis. The filmmakers spent gobs more time just showing the Shepherd’s fetish for gagging/choking women. You just get a quick glimpse of him dead, tied to some trees. For one thing, they didn’t even show what the women did to him. But even that isn’t really a feminist victory. For once, one of those psycho cult leaders gets what’s coming to him. Furthermore, I would not say that these were strong female characters. Every scene could have been a still in an art gallery, but there was VERY little story to this story.
#THE OTHER LAMB CULT MOVIE MOVIE#
There’s a YouTube movie reviewer who I like who calls his channel “every frame a picture” and that’s exactly what I kept thinking while watching this. I’m glad you liked the film, so please don’t let my opinion tarnish it for you, but I think it was high on style and low on substance. That being said, having watched the film, I have to agree with u/thunderling’s take on it. Also, for anyone who hasn’t yet seen this film, there will be spoilers. I learned about RBG’s death immediately after watching the film and that threw me for a couple of days, after which, I’m sorry to say, I forgot about our little conversation. If you were a man I wouldn't have bothered trying to share my POV, which is why I asked.įorgive me for taking so long to get back to you. I agree that the description was not accurate, but I think it is still an empowering movie for women, like a cautionary tale.
It could be interpreted many ways, but I thought it was a tongue and cheek way for the director to say that the hell the girls were put through was fucked. That's the beauty of it, in my mind!Īlso I liked when the cop says "well, this is fucked". In the end, the women that band together against the literal patriarch win. I didn't think it glorified him at all, I saw it more as a call to arms for women. I thought the director did a great job at depicting how men use religion to further their own ends, how women are victimized for the "fault" of just wanting to be loved, and how it is necessary for women leaders (like the heroine) to step up for each other because men will not protect us from themselves. I watched it from the point of view that this is entirely plausible, that this thing does happen, and that the way men treat women IS horrific and SHOULD be seen as horrific, not normal. I appreciated that it made the villain very realistic, rather than an out of this world or paranormal monster.
Maybe we expect different things from horror.
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