Recently watched the movie "Finch", which was released in the United States on November 5, 2021, a science fiction film starring Tom Hanks. It feels that the title of the film is "Finch's Journey" is more emotional, and it is too abrupt to call "Finch".
Watching Tom Hanks' films, in addition to "Forrest Gump" and "The Rest of the Desert Island", the movie that made me cry was his "Happy Terminal".
Before, a long time ago, when I knew very little about American stars, I even mixed the names Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks. Later, you may remember the name Tom Cruise more, because Tom Hanks is not the type of cool, naturally it is not easy to be remembered at a glance. Of course, in the end, it is natural to distinguish between these two people very clearly. Naturally, it also feels like Tom Hanks' films are more enduring.
A few months ago, when I was watching the movie "A Man Named Ovie Decides to Die" and the original novel, I heard that Tom Hanks was going to star in the American version of the movie of the same name. I felt completely unnecessary, because it was enough to have a Nordic version of this movie, the content was known, and even if Tom Hanks was superb at acting, he didn't feel expected.
Tom Hanks, now 65, starred in his first sci-fi movie, feeling that too long has passed since the last time he shined.
From a science fiction point of view, this "Finch" is reminiscent of a similar doomsday movie "I Am Legend". It's all about the end of the day, it's all about how the last few humans left survive in the ashes. In comparison, I praise "Finch" more.
Because "I Am Legend" is not called a movie, it is just a collection of several flashes of inspiration, and it is not a continuous and complete story at all.
Although this "Finch" is also slightly thin in plot, it has more depth to dig into in terms of inner care.
At the level of inner care, this "Finch" is quite similar to "The Land of No Man", which won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival last year and is also a road film, both are a wandering old man, a car, all cared for, all trying to show a lonely, lonely and free mentality.
Mainstream American film critics and audiences seem to be particularly willing to watch this kind of old and tough, hard-working, unwilling to compromise, and struggling personal hero movies, which can be the kind of personal heroes who save the world or save the people or things around them, so as to save themselves and even this kind of person.
If it is moved to China, it must be filmed a group of people together in the story, rarely showing a person or a few people, because in reality, a few people or a person do not have so much experience and connotation to dig, even if there is, the domestic audience does not have the patience to wait, everyone is more willing to see the feeling of more people joining in the fun.
Like The Martian, Finch's theme is to live, and it uses existing American classic pop songs as the theme song and ending song.
"The Martian" uses "I Will Survive", "Finch" uses "American Pie", and it has to be said that the use of these two songs is to a considerable extent, so suitable for the content of their respective films. Even you think that the original ideas of these two films may have come from the inspiration of these two songs to some extent.
European and American movies really dare to shoot the old and frail state of the elderly, and it is really directly filming the real physical and mental appearance of the actors, especially the famous movie stars who are really aging.
You look at this picture, Tom Hanks is really old, you look at his legs, post-production does not repair the picture, those two up and down uneven thickness of the old legs, so directly presented, really admirable.
In other words, there is no door in China, and it is necessary to shoot the kind of chinese elderly people who are divorced from reality and do not conform to what you and I usually see, and must make all the pictures beautiful and bright, and will definitely not show the real and cruel side. It is so dare not and unwilling to face reality, it is so living in the illusion.
Tom Hanks uses this most unreal story to show the most real life.
Overall, to be honest, I don't feel much about Finch as a "sci-fi" because I prefer to watch "real" sci-fi. For this kind of film that shows the depth of life, the feeling is also average. If you want to watch science fiction, then watch real science fiction, and you don't need to hunt for curiosity, but you need science fiction with real science fiction content.
If you take science fiction dramas as an example and further refine it, don't be a crude science fiction like "Westworld", which is not completed, but a science fiction story that can be lifelike but has real science fiction content and delicate at the same time like "Real Humans".
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