After much-publicized hopes that Rachel Yoder's novel would hit the screens in 2021 and that Amy Adams would finally win an Oscar for her performance, the trailer for Marielle Heller's new film The Nightbitch dampened the expectations of many moviegoers. For a film that was supposed to be a serious examination of a young mother's experience in transitioning into a matriarchal system, it seemed absurd and overly funny. Browse Nightbitch movie on Flix hd movies

Now that the film has been released, were those concerns justified or overblown?

The Night Bitch tells the story of a former artist identified only as a mother (Amy Adams). She puts her career on hold to become a housewife and mother, trying to cope with a new phase of her life while her husband (Scoot McNairy) continues his career and helps her as much as he can. As the stress of being a mother of a toddler and a stay-at-home mom mounts, her evening routine becomes unrealistic and her maternal instincts begin to emerge as she transforms into a dog at night.

The centerpiece of the film is undoubtedly the mother's transformation from human to dog. And while this transformation has an impact on the story, the sensational and metaphorical gimmick of the transformation is secondary to Night Bitch's exploration of the female experience in the transition to motherhood. What the mother experiences throughout the film is her struggle with her changing identity from wife and mother to married working woman and all the complexities that come with it. What Night Bitch beautifully portrays is the complexities that many women feel as a new mother, a combination of regret and intense love and care for their newborn baby. It would have been easy for Heller to portray this in the simplistic way that modern feminist culture typically portrays working motherhood as a burden for women, an albatross that needs to be overcome or avoided altogether. However,