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Review: Lamb (2021) - Ayesha A. Siddiqi

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As a beautiful counter-narrative on parenthood, A24's Lamb is a chance to critically examine the Trad movement

In American stories, the stage at which a couple has children is used as a timestamp for the decline of the relationship. To become a parent is examined, not as a state two people share, but the transformation of someone into something less desirable: a mother or father and the loss that comes with it. After kids, they say, “the spark” is gone. Pregnancy and child-rearing are portrayed as circumstances that make women sexually unavailable to their partners who go on to—apparently inevitably—cheat. Can you think of a single recent American marriage depicted on screen or in a novel that didn’t…

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