What is The Finger/The Student about?

Double Feature: THE FINGER, 2011, 93 min. Devilish would-be politician Don Hidalgo's ambitions of being voted in as the local councilor are temporarily thwarted when his town's 501 occupants (the minimum needed for an election) are reduced to 500 after the murder of Hidalgo's political opponent, Baldomero. Hidalgo persuades Baldomero's brother not to sign the death certificate so that the election may proceed. Baldomero’s amputated finger takes on a life of its own, ultimately running opposite Hidalgo in the impending race for councilor. THE STUDENT, 2011, 124 min. Dir. Santiago Mitre. Roque has left his provincial hometown for the University of Buenos Aires, a campus he finds teeming with students engaged in political activism. He develops a crush on a cute teaching assistant who is trying to instigate reform. Roque is lured into the school's vibrantly seductive political realm and discovers political allegiances are not without a price.

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What is The Finger/The Student about?: Double Feature: THE FINGER, 2011, 93 min. Devilish would-be politician Don Hidalgo's ambitions of being voted in as the local councilor are temporarily thwarted when his town's 501 occupants (the minimum needed for an election) are reduced to 500 after the murder of Hidalgo's political opponent, Baldomero. Hidalgo persuades Baldomero's brother not to sign the death certificate so that the election may proceed. Baldomero’s amputated finger takes on a life of its own, ultimately running opposite Hidalgo in the impending race for councilor.

THE STUDENT, 2011, 124 min. Dir. Santiago Mitre. Roque has left his provincial hometown for the University of Buenos Aires, a campus he finds teeming with students engaged in political activism. He develops a crush on a cute teaching assistant who is trying to instigate reform. Roque is lured into the school's vibrantly seductive political realm and discovers political allegiances are not without a price.