#finde

[viejospellejos]

Vamos con el viernes, pellejersss!!

[numapompilioi]

Finde

Los jueves para mi son viernes 🍻

[abuanita]

[5amfever]

FINDE (2021)

Ever since I watched 2021 Argentinian horror-comedy FINDE I find myself wondering exactly why it is that I gravitate toward this sub-genre. Almost every movie I've watched that can loosely be described as "couple stays at a seemingly normal vacation home only to find its owners are total creeps" plays out mostly the same, but like a character who can't leave well enough along, curiosity always gets me in the end. Sure, I know that the folks who run the property in question likely dip their toes in some kind of sadistic wading pool, but what flavor? These questions must be answered.

And answered they are, if not in spectacular fashion, at least in a funny way in director Nano Garay Santaló's FINDE. Agos (Malena Pichot) and Santi (Julián) are a couple experiencing a unique brand of cabin fever during the pandemic. Cramped together in their small flat before, during and after work and occasionally clashing over minor squabbles, they end up getting a good deal on a villa for a nice weekend getaway. They leap at the opportunity, and it serves as a bonus bit of extra credit for work since Agos is always on the hunt for attractive new destinations to point her company's clients toward. Maybe this could be another diamond in the rough?

When they arrive at the villa they meet the charming pair of Lore and Emi, played respectively by Paula Grinszpan and the scene-stealing Leonardo Sbaraglia. Their villa is lovely, but there's one not-so-small catch: Their plans fell through and they have nowhere else to stay this weekend. Agos and Santi are hesitant to spend this getaway living with another couple, but their hosts promise to stay out of the way and even act as their own personal servants for the entire visit. They cook, they clean and there's absolutely no way any of this could go south, right?

As you may have guessed by the very premise, Lore and Emi have their own dark secrets that go beyond simply making their guests incredibly uncomfortable, whether it be through a complete lack of respect for personal space, Emi's sudden outbursts or an unexpected pill-powered boner. FINDE has all the trappings of the genre, but while it's not a full-blown comedy, it definitely eschews any sense of dread and prefers to revel in the absurdity of it all. From disturbing stories about Emi's past to the mystery behind Lore's "evil" twin sister, FINDE manages to maintain this tonal balance without dipping into parodic territory. It succeeds in being funny without coming off as trying too hard or taking you too far out of the proposed reality of the situation. 

FINDE is a nicely directed and acted effort, and while I personally don't vibe with pandemic storytelling given how close we are to it all right now, that aspect of the narrative isn't overbearing in its presentation. Without calling everything out to the forefront, it simply serves as the jumping off point for a tightly-paced trip to the countryside with a few standout moments. It also has to be one of the only horror films to roll a blooper reel during its credits, so be sure to stick around for some goofs and gaffes. 

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[graveyarrdshift]

"I'm just a girl", "girl math", "girl dinner", "divine feminine energy", "bimbocore", "clean girl", "girl's girl", "girlfriend brain" SHUT UPPP!!! SHUTT THE FUCKKKK UPPPPPP !!!!

[lrndvs]

compliments from girls go hard

[ravenkings]

[pookapufferfish]

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[dramatic-dolphin]

a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

[viejospellejos]

Vamos con el finde, pellejeeerss!!

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[dullanyan]

a few weeks ago i needed worcestershire sauce for a recipe but i didnt have any so i had to leave it out.

u are never gonna believe what i found in the cabinet today, unopened, probably has been there for months,

[musashi]

hunting down this post to find that OP turned of reblogs has me heartbroken.

it's time.