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The modern shift began in the indie boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s, but it matured in the 2010s. Filmmakers realized that the tension in a blended family isn’t usually malice—it’s logistics and loyalty.

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Consider The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). While absurdist, Wes Anderson captured the friction of adopted children (Margot) and step-siblings living under the same roof of a performatively dysfunctional patriarch. The "blending" is a disaster, but the film argues that shared trauma binds more effectively than shared DNA. The modern shift began in the indie boom