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This movie is actually fairly good. For those that missed it the title of the movie is "The Farm" and that's exactly what it is. So it delivers. Is it slow and boring at times? Yes, of course, because that's what farm life is. Every day passes like the next. It's not a very exciting lifestyle for a movie. Also on a farm difficult and arduous work must be performed, sometimes for survival, other times to make things nicer and easier (like chopping extra wood). So while the movie is not a cinematic masterpiece, whoever wrote it at least had a decent understanding of what farm life is like. It is boring, in the movie, and in actuality. For those of us that actually grew up on a farm, we can relate, and that is also the reason I left. There are a few flaws that can be nitpicked about how some of the things the lead male character does either don't make sense for farm work, just some of the details, but they could be chalked up with a few explanations. 1) everyone conducts their affairs differently and sometimes (like getting the tractor stuck and then repair) it's a learning process if you haven't done it before, so it could be done better the next time which segways into 2) the couple are making a go of it running the farm, so presumably they're new to it also and all the responsibilities that go along with it and they're just trying to learn and manage, or 3) The writer did not grow up on a farm or have any real farm experience but studied it for the movie and got it mostly right, but just missed the details. Basically on a farm in real life you only do stuff that make sense and stuff you have to do. This movie did ok at portraying that. I do gotta zonk the writing though near the end for having the lead male character get snake bit and then does not successfully kill the snake or retrieve it without getting bit again and then he doesn't make very far at all before he passes out like a dandy. Anyone that lives on a farm or out in the woods knows that from the moment you get bit you're on a countdown to get where you need to go for help. He wasted time and his case he should've hightailed it to the farm house without moving too quickly or getting to excited causing the venom to circulate faster. Depending on the snake and type of bite it's possible it could've overtaken him that quickly, but not likely. Also since this movie seems to be set in the current present time it doesn't make sense that even someone out on a farm wouldn't have a cell phone. I've got cell service out on the farm. We're farm people not cave people. And he should've had snake gaiters on anyway. But being that the characters were possibly new to farming and making a go of it, it's plausible that they didn't know that stuff. In real life you learn lessons like that once out on the farm. It's possible this was their education rather than people who've grown up on a farm and already know. I do appreciate that the lead male character did not shoot the deer he was "hunting" though. I've never been for killing any animals that I didn't need to. Anyway that's my take on it. Not bad.

A young couple inherit a farm after a "horrible" accident that kills his parents. Of course you never hear how they die or any details about it. They struggle to make a go at making the farm profitable again.

They take turns narrating little things about the other one's life in the most monotone dialog imaginable.

Catherine is a nurse in the city.

Tom struggles with life.

They both struggle with infertility.

After many scenes of Tom mowing grass or weeds or something, he gets his tractor stuck in mud and continues to gun the engine until it starts smoking. Frustrated, he sits and pouts in the yard until Catherine comes out to see what's wrong. Tom sulks and then announces that it's time for dinner.

(spoiler alert) Catherine leaves for work.

Tom finds a repair manual in the barn and quickly deduces that the reason the tractor smokes and is stuck in the mud is because the alternator must be bad. He replaces it and successfully drives out of the mud pit.

Tom washes the tractor and leaves a trail of muddy clothes through the house. Catherine surprises Tom in the shower and he estutely asks, "Oh, are you home?" The movie goes on like this for another 30-some minutes, with another life changing event that I won't spoil for you.

This is the slowest moving and one of the most uneventful movies that I have a ever wasted an hour and 28 minutes and 10 seconds on.

It's a must to watch with subtitles for the descriptions of the music, etc.

This"movie" has no plot line, no interesting characters, terrible music score and subtitles that will make you laugh at how much they reinforce the fact that there's absolutely nothing going on. Even fast forwarding through much of it did not reduce the plodding and lack of anything interesting. The wife just sits around at home writing in a journal and looking out the window. Evidently she has a job at a hospital but can't seem to find it in herself to do anything at home. She even tells her husband that he has some cleaning up to do when she comes home from work and finds his muddy clothes. Not even a greeting for the poor guy who is trying to make a go at running their farm all by himself.

They barely talk to each other, but you'll hear their thoughts on love and life- nothing original for sure. FInally, after 1 hour of nothing happening, the highlight is that the husband is bit by a snake when he's out hunting; unfortunately it still proceeds with the same melancholy scripting after that. What were they thinking when they decided to put this thing on film?