In an effort to keep you guessing about what's real, what's not, and what's actually going on, this movie bores you to tears.
You pick up on the fact that nothing is quite what it seems as soon as this film begins, so you're waiting for the big reveal pretty much the entire runtime.
Alas, instead of gradually building up to a crescendo, the makers of this film instead decided to belabor the point.
At an absolute plodding pace they repeatedly hit you over the head with random nonsense to remind you of what you figured out in the first five minutes.
The problem of course is that by the time they get around to letting you in on the secret, you have long since stopped caring.
While there are attempts to interject deeper meaning through the use of metaphors, they are heavy handed and therefore fall flat.
Further weakening the overall impact of this movie is the exceptionally drab color scheme.
Yes, stark landscapes, spartan set design, and a washed out color palette can be evocative of certain emotions; however, when that is virtually all the audience is offered, it ultimately becomes an additional strain on their ability to engage with the story.
In what I suspect was a misguided attempt to be avant-garde, Pasture takes what could possibly have been a coherent vision and instead turns it into a jumbled mess of mildly interesting concepts.
Unfortunately for anyone who tries to sit through this entire film, the sum total of those concepts is a tedious waste of your time and attention.
Ultimately the movie succeeds most as a testament to how trying too hard can wreck an attempt to share a meaningful experience with an audience.
