History Film / Lamb

* TomatoInTheMirror: It's a brief one, but at one point, Ada looks at a photo of a flock of shoop and seems to have a moment of crisis over it.

* TomatoInTheMirror: It's a brief one, but at one point, Ada looks in a mirror at her sheep head and seems to have a moment of crisis over it.

* MinimalistCast: There are only three human characters in the film.

* CuteMute: Ada never speaks, and her noise making is mostly limited to faint, breathy vocalizations and whimpers. She's also an adorable [[spoiler:sheep-humanoid hybrid]] child who loves her [[spoiler:adoptive]] parents and innocently toddles after them in farm boots. Many viewers have admitted to falling in love with her for how cute she is.

** Denial (not just a river in Egypt) can be dangerous if left unchecked.

Not to be confused with the 2015 American film ''Lamb'' starring Creator/OonaLaurence.

''Lamb'' (Icelandic: Dýrið, "The animal") is a 2021 supernatural horror film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson and starring Creator/NoomiRapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson.

It features María and Ingvar, a childless couple who own a small sheep farm in a remote patch of wilderness among the UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}}ic mountains. They spend their days quietly tending to their flock and growing potatoes.

* AdultFear:
** The couple [[spoiler:lost their first child]] and at multiple points, believe they might have lost their second.
*** Ada disappears from where she's supposed to be sleeping, triggering a frantic search in which Ingvar checks the waterway, [[spoiler:only for her to be discovered naked far out in the hills with her sheep birth mother.]]
*** Ada disappears again. [[spoiler:While it turns out she's sleeping soundly in a chair with Pétur, it's because he snuck her out of her crib, led her away from the house, and nearly shot her in the head.]]
*** Ingvar [[spoiler:is shot by Ada's biological father, who pulls her away from him as Ingvar tries to cling to her]].
** From the mother ewe's perspective, [[spoiler:being betrayed by the people who are essentially your caretakers and having your own child snatched away by them. While Ingvar and María are good parents to Ada and are portrayed sympathetically, taking someone else's child away is ultimately still a cruel and selfish thing to do. The mother ewe spends much of the film desperately trying reclaim custody of Ada, her biological daughter, annoying María enough to murder her in cold blood]].
** The arrival of [[spoiler:Ada's biological father]] has ramifications on the couple. [[spoiler:A complete stranger approaches the couple out of nowhere, kills the husband, and whisks their frightened child away to whereabouts unknown]].

It features María and Ingvar, a childless couple who own a small sheep farm in a remote patch of wilderness among the Icelandic mountains. They spend their days quietly tending to their flock and growing potatoes.

* AdultFear: The couple [[spoiler:lost their first child]] and at multiple points, believe they might have lost their second.
** Ada disappears from where she's supposed to be sleeping, triggering a frantic search in which Ingvar checks the waterway, [[spoiler:only for her to be discovered naked far out in the hills with her sheep birth mother.]]
** Ada disappears again. [[spoiler:While it turns out she's sleeping soundly in a chair with Pétur, it's because he snuck her out of her crib, led her away from the house, and nearly shot her in the head.]]
** Ingvar [[spoiler:is shot by Ada's father, who pulls her away from him as he tries to cling to her]].
* {{Blackmail}}: Pétur threatens to tell Ada what Maria did to her mother unless she submit to his advances.

* CuteMute: Ada never speaks, and her noise making is mostly limited to faint, breathy vocalizations and whimpers.

* DeadGuyJunior: Ada was also the name of [[spoiler:the couple's late child]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the first act, we know very little about the couple. When Ignvar reads in a magazine that scientists believe time travel is possible, Maria wistfully asks if that means people can go back in time. This is the first time we get an indication that there's a tragic event in their past.

* HeelFaceTurn: To a point. Pétur remains a pretty foul person at his core, but he does go from viewing Ada as a monster [[spoiler:that he kidnaps and nearly murders to his niece that he adores.]]

* KickTheDog: Maria [[spoiler:kills Ada's mother]], which establishes that, whatever loss they might have experienced, taking Ada as their daughter is wrong.

* ReplacementGoldfish: By unspoken agreement, the couple immediately start treating the lamb as a replacement for their late daughter. They raise her in their daughter's old crib, apparently dress her in all of her old clothes, and give her [[DeadGuyJunior the same name]].

Then, one day, one of their pregnant ewes gives birth to something inexplicable...something that in the space of a single look, the couple makes the decision to whisk inside and raise as their own child.

** Ada disappears from where she's supposed to be sleeping, triggering a frantic search in which Ingvar checks the waterway, [[spoiler:only for her to be discovered naked out far out in the hills with her sheep birth mother.]]

* {{Blackmail}}: Petur threatens to tell Ada what Maria did to her mother unless she submit to his advances.