Backbencher

In The Price of Milk a New Zealand cow farmer, Rob, proposes to his girlfriend Lucinda. Rob has 117 cows on his dairy farm. After Rob proposes to Lucinda, she is driving down the road looking at her ring, and hits an old Maori lady. Well after that things get a little odd for Lucinda. When she went to see if the Maori lady was ok, the lady said, "Keep warm". Lucinda has no idea what that means, but throughout the movie, she sure finds out. The night after she hit the lady, her quilt was taken while they were sleeping. Lucinda is obsessed with finding the quilt and getting it back. Lucinda is worried that the "spark" in their relationship is dying out, so she tests Rob's love for her. Lucinda’s friend Drosophilia is the one who convinces Lucinda to do the things to do that tests Rob's love. One of the things that Lucinda does is swim around in a vat of Rob's milk that he had gotten from his cows. Lucinda goes back to the old Maori lady to get her quilt back, and Lucinda in turns trades Rob's cows to get her quilt back. Rob is definitely not happy about this! He also loses his voice when he finds out that his cows have been traded. Rob's friends lets him live in his garage after Rob leaves Lucinda for trading the cows. Lucinda goes back and tries to trade anything she has to get the cows back from the Maori lady. Lucinda has to give up the ring that Rob gave her, and many other things in order to get Rob's cows back. Lucinda hears music and then goes to a church and finds Rob marrying Drosophilia. Let us just say that Lucinda is not very happy when she sees this. In the end, everything turns out just dandy, kind of like a fairy tale.

This is definitely a movie that kept me guessing what was going to happen and what Lucinda was going to do next to upset Rob. Another thing is when Rob and Lucinda were sitting out in a tub in the middle a field. Who does that?! Seriously, things just kept getting stranger and stranger in this movie. Their dog was in a box, you never saw him all you saw was the box. Lucinda has a box of little kids' shoes, again who has a box of little kids' shoes when you don’t have any children. The old Maori lady is not very normal either. The house follows Rob while he is walking, and the house rises up when the tractor drives toward it. This is movie is kind of like a movie in which everything is possessed.