Talk:Fingernails (film)

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I don't think it's correct to categorize this film as science fiction. I mean, it might be seen partially as that, but there's a strong absurdist angle, akin to The Lobster (which has in fact "absurdist" listed as one of its genres in the Wikipedia article). Elements like the bonding exercises being mostly depicted as idiotic reenactments of romantic movies, or the fact that the instructors at the institute perform the extraction of the fingernail in a torture-like fashion with no medical experience or anesthetic. It's clearly not meant as actual speculative science-based fiction. The test is never presented as plausible science at any point. --Kumagoro-42 (talk) 03:09, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]