Under Pressure, little more than transparent hype for Dove’s self esteem fund (“You support our efforts every time you buy Dove!”), is probably the weakest of its Ogilvy-manufactured Real Women series. The parts that aren’t naked promotion look cobbled together from scraps of Onslaught.
The spot follows up from Amy, the lonesome story about a lovestruck boy who doesn’t understand why his girlfriend hates herself so much; and Hair, one woman’s pursuit of gorgeosity via shoe polish and peroxide. It kinda brings Requiem for a Dream to mind, except it’s missing “ass to ass!”
