No Pressure Review: Oliwia, a successful chef, is summoned back to her hometown when she gets the call of her grandmother’s demise. Fortunately or unfortunately, she realises that Halina has tricked her into coming back to take care of the farm, and she is now stuck to either caring for the farm and all of the animals or selling it and getting back to her life.
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No Pressure Netflix Cast
Anna Szymanczyk, Anna Seniuk, Mateusz Janicki, Artur Barcis, Angelika Cegielska, Filip Gurfacz, Cezary Zak, Magdalena Smalara, Paulina Holtz
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No Pressure Movie Director
Bartosz Prokopowicz
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Writers
Karolina Frankowska, Katarzyna Golenia
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Original Title
Nic na siłę
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No Pressure Review
If you’ve ever watched these romantic comedies before, you should know where it will go after reading the description on Netflix. No Pressure goes right there and doesn’t try to be anything else. It’s a simple story of getting back to your roots and giving up everything that you have ever worked very hard for, finally realising the happiness in the little things in life. Of course, there are small problems that crop up, a few relationships are repaired, there’s an evil tycoon out to get everyone, as well as some secrets that can cause problems, but don’t really in the end.
The comedy is rudimentary and cliched and the goats eating clothes and important papers is just the start of it. Oliwia struggles to adjust to her new life in this idyllic town where everyone knows everyone, and the storyline, the humour and the relationships flow exactly as you’d expect them to. Even Oliwia’s character is just so annoyingly cliched that you know how she will behave the moment she comes on-screen and it works out exactly like that, not to anyone’s surprise.
I want to touch on the subject of how people think that it’s fine and a happy turn of events to pull the younger generation from their well-liked and loved careers and lives to take over some farm or business as their “loved ones”, while giving the excuse of some past trauma that made them walk out.
Even if that were the case, I think it’s important to acknowledge that, whatever the reason, people like Oliwia have, through sweat and tears, built this life through struggle, and it’s unfair to minimise their accomplishments because “the older generation knows best”. It’s a common theme in a lot of these half-baked movies that is not only insulting but also quite an incorrect and unfair way of getting work done.
Moving on, No Pressure tries hard to be light-hearted but is quite corny and meanders around trying to make us care for this eclectic group of characters and their issues, but it never reaches that level of love and compassion. Plus, the fact that the storyline is something that you’d expect makes it hard to connect with the characters as well. They don’t have depth, and neither is there anything for the cast to do much. With a runtime of 112 minutes, the antics get very old very fast, and the series digs its heels in even further, trying to make us care.
Personally, I understood Halina’s need to reconnect with her granddaughter and the loneliness that she feels without anyone around her. And that’s a heartbreaking feeling that could’ve been tackled so beautifully without the manipulation and sabotage. Tackled better, Halina would’ve been the dear old woman who just needed someone to talk to or love. However, in this movie, she turns into a weird, scheming person who is almost holding her granddaughter hostage with everyone’s help. It’s so weird.
Final Thoughts
Isn’t it a fun time to watch a woman get manipulated out of her job and forced to take care of a farm? It’s such a fun time, isn’t it? Of course, it’s convenient that she realises that the real happiness is coming back home and feeding the ducks and not in the career that she has spent time crafting, but let’s ignore the red flags.
If that wasn’t infuriating enough, the movie is cliched and far too long to be enjoyable. Maybe if there had been less manipulation and more open conversations, we could’ve been supportive of Halina’s efforts to reunite with Oliwia and use her help to take care of her farm. But when the only road is manipulation, you must understand that there’s something wrong.
No Pressure is streaming on Netflix.
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Okies kinda funny, i don really like farming, grass, woods, living of dirt but its okies, a sexy women redussed to a simple dirty farm girl, not good comes of that,
Now, if a horse gnawing my face THAT early in the morning its going to the glue factory,
The goats eating my jimmy shoes and dresses they wil would be shoot that instant,
The house is gonna fall down any minutes, its gasoline and a match time *BURNS IT DOWNS*
the start is okies then the rest of it its just i have fucking seen it a 100 times before LOVE IS DEAD THESE DAYS,
Stay stronge and single with acttuly money in your pockest,
My score because you made me giggle: 1.5 of 5
Yeah not gonna watch farm love, damn that women is hot, wish someone like that lived in my small patetich town, its only lives witches here, good grif the old people, and no young people dont live here only studens and shit, god lord after so many years i want too die, i hate it here….