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The question is pro forma, actually.

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The chosen one will certainly receive Shepherds grace i.e., hismembrum virile because thats why shes there.

Shepherd is so full of grace that theres no need for any other male on the premises.

Or is she struggling to keep from being drowned?

Not much of a mystery, the nature of Shepherds divinity.

and not screaming:Whats wrong with you, woman??

It makes for a different viewing experience, Ill say that.

Stuff you might have once laughed off seems soul-shattering.

It took a while for me to figure out the time period.

(Its a surprise.)

And where, I wondered, was this empty, near-Biblical landscape?

The accents are American but subtly not, with traces of the British Isles and Europe.

Dislocation, thats the ticket.

In her mystical visions (or are they real?)

she runs along a cliff with a red stain blooming on the lower half of her snow-white nightgown.

He is all engulfing males rolled into one.

Its best to viewThe Other Lambas a rite-of-passage fantasia with a gossamer heroine.

The movie is a parable for women who know it all in black-and-white but still dream in blood red.