Finch's Journey is a 2021 American science fiction film directed by Mingle Sapshnik, starring Tom Hanks, and written by Craig Lac and Ivor Powell. The story tells the story of robots built to protect the creator's beloved dog on the post-apocalyptic earth, and gradually understand the meaning of life, love, friendship, and human beings. The film was launched on Apple TV+ on November 5, 2021, and was distributed by Universal Pictures.
Although the situation at the beginning of the film seems grim, Finch (Hanks) is an optimistic man who has a dog and a roof over his head. Other than that, it's even worse, because a few minutes into the movie we'll see Finch's bedtime reading—a lot of books about radiation poisoning. When he started coughing and nosebleeds, we knew he wasn't a guy with a quirky taste for reading. He has a problem.
He invented the robot Jeff (voiced by Keller Landry Jones) in the hope that Jeff would protect and care for his dog in Finch's absence. In this way, Finch is a bit like Julia Roberts/Susan Sarandon's film Stepmother, except that it has scalding radiation, desolate landscapes, and Hanks yelling at robots.
Think of "Finch" as a test. Transporting the actor into a post-apocalyptic world, a world in which, apart from watching the protagonist decay due to radiation poisoning, the audience knows that there is absolutely no hope, no future, and nothing to look forward to. With the exception of a robot he allegedly invented and a dog, the actors had no one to talk to. Then stay in this state for almost two hours. What do you get?
When that actor is Tom Hanks, you get a movie that you can actually watch, and it's not about "Finch," it's about the relationship Hanks has built with the audience for decades. At the beginning of the film, he opens a closet to check his food. His face was gloomy, and we worried with him: Oh no, he and the dog are running out of food!
After a few minutes, he played with the dog, laughed, and then happened to see his reflection in the mirror. The smile was still on his face, but the look in his eyes had changed. He was thinking, "I'm smiling. What's so funny? ”
The point is that Hanks is such a brilliant actor — so capable of accomplishing a lot with a little bit of performance; so plain and emotional, so steeped in the audience's long-held love — that he was able to contend with Finch.