This all happens in the first fifteen minutes. The next day, Walter comes in missing a second finger. Scotty, who stares at her with deepening confusion (or are those dollar signs?). “Know that I’m not a racist but short black men freak me out…the darker their skin color, the more my stomach turns,” she tells the black Dr. Oh and she can’t have the baby because she’s, in her words, a “monster.” I can’t disagree, but at least she’s self-aware…I guess?Īmanda sees a recommended doctor named Dr. In private, she tells her friend she’s pregnant and doesn’t think she’s in love with Peter. ![]() “I hope he gets hit by a bus,” she casually remarks about poor Walter. Around a campfire that night, she drinks wine with friends and her husband Peter (Alex Zuko) and we realize just how off-kilter her bigotry is. Amanda freaks and tells Lizzy that he has to leave. ![]() Things get worse (and weirder) for her when she gets to work and her intern Lizzy (Taylor Zaudtke) tells her that Walter has shown up to work, missing a pinky. She pays for the donuts, but then immediately throws them in the trash. Amanda has issues, which is clearly communicated when she orders donuts and discovers the server has a birthmark. Her face is perfection, but she doesn’t stop. Then we’re whiplashed to Amanda (Sabina Friedman-Seitz) as she carefully examines her face in a mirror, looking for blemishes. The dance turns from joyousness to mania as his body fills up the camera. “What do you want from me?”, he begs as a man wearing a ski mask that looks like a demonic Mickey Mouse exits the truck and starts doing an interpretive dance. The man’s name is Walter (Stan Madray) and he seems as lost about what’s happening as we are. ![]() It begins with low thudding synth music as a night road is only illuminated by the headlights of a truck slowly chasing after a fleeing man. Fingers is a movie that defies any sort of plot synopsis.
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