Blog:The Rude Finger

Note: This isn't a real film obviously.

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- Rotten Tomatoes

The Rude Finger is a 2018 3D computer-animated film produced by Blake TV.

Plot
Joseph "Joe" Diminiton reports two of his fellow students, Benjamin "Ben" Hidifo and Ben's friend John "Jack" Elinda, to a teacher for using profanity. When they get mad at him for it, he reports them again, and continues to report them until he realises that everyone is breaking the rules one way or another. As a result, Joe decides to continue reporting everyone until every single troublemaker gets expelled.

Why It Gets a 🖕

 * 1) It infamously teaches a moral that states that in school, you should always report someone to a teacher when they break the rules, even if what they're doing isn't negatively affecting you or anyone else. This is an awful message since most of the people in Joe's school don't actually do anything that negatively affects him, and are just breaking rules that are either ridiculous or harmless enough to break without someone (besides a teacher) being affected.
 * 2) *To be exact, Joe reports everyone in his school for breaking rules, and because everyone's behaviour is repetitive, everyone ends up getting expelled. In the end of the film, Joe is the only kid who is still in school. Obviously this is unrealistic as in real life, not everyone would break the rules enough to get expelled, but this still goes to show how unnecessary and unfair Joe's actions are, and yet, he still doesn't learn his lesson in the end.
 * 3) Multiple unlikable characters:
 * 4) Joe himself is unlikable for obvious reasons, as he literally reports everyone for breaking the rules to the point where he is the only kid left in school. Not to mention, he reports Ben and Jack just for getting mad at him for reporting them, which is not against the rules in any way, yet they still get in trouble for it. He's also a complete hypocrite, as at the end of the film, he points the rude finger at Ben and Jack, who are the last ones to get expelled, which is also against the rules. However, the teachers (unfortunately) do nothing about it.
 * 5) The teachers are also unlikable for obvious reasons, as they get mad at Ben and Jack just for getting mad at Joe, and also don't do anything when Joe points the rude finger at the two at the end of the film.
 * 6) False advertising: Despite being titled The Rude Finger, the film barely has anything to do with the rude finger, and calling it The Rude Finger if anything was just spoiling the fact that the film ends with Joe pointing the rude finger at some kids.
 * 7) Speaking of the rude finger, the rude finger can mean "fuck me", "fuck you", "shove it up your ass/arse", "up yours" or "go fuck yourself", none of which are appropriate things for kids to say. Despite this, the film was given a G rating in Australia and other countries which use the G rating, and most other countries gave it whatever rating is their equivalent to G (ex. "U" (United Kingdom), "A" (Mexico), etc.).
 * 8) Awful ending: As mentioned in WIG🖕#1N#1, WIG🖕#2N#1 and WIG🖕#2N#2, the film ends with every single student in the school (except for Joe) getting expelled, and Joe pointing the rude finger at Ben and Jack (who are the last ones to get expelled). This means that Joe got away with all of the things he did, including his blatant hypocrisy at the end.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) Ben and Jack are likable characters.

Reception
The film was panned by critics and audiences alike for its bad message and unlikable characters. It received a 0% critic rating and a 3% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 0.5/10. The site's consensus simply uses the rude finger emoji ("🖕"), similar to what happened with The Emoji Movie (which site's consensus simply used the 🚫 emoji). On Metacritic, the site gives it a score of 5 out of 100, indicating "overwhelming dislike".