The Farm (I) (2023) User Reviews

An absolute snoozefest.

[tinmanjs · 1/10 · 21 August 2023]

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.

Slow, boring waste of time

[msrac · 21 August 2023]

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?

Plowing through

[daviddarabian · 1/10 · 10 March 2024]

The Farm is a movie about a farm. There's a tractor, a field to plow, a checkered flannel shirt, a married couple, and what feels like a very boring life. If it's not boring the movie's deceptive because it sure is. About 30 minutes into the movie I was struggling, but I had a hard time exactly pinpointing what was wrong. Was it the quietness, with scenes without the ambiance that usually helps make dialogues feel less strained, was it the acting, or maybe the cast? I eventually came to the conclusion that it was all of the above.

1. There isn't any plot, it's just like driving along a straight road for two hours with a broken radio.

2. There's no chemistry between the actors. They act as if they're strangers to one one another, they read their script instead of acting it.

3. There's a lack of ambiance. Scenes just feel like a series of awkward moments.

4. Then there's the so called backstory. The couple struggle to get pregnant, the guy blames himself for the death of his farming father, it's all sad events for them but not for us! There's no buildup to it, it's just there, like a bird turd on your windowsill.