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Written by: Craig Luck Starring: Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones Running time: 115 minutes Finch is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film directed by Miguel Sapochnik from a spec script written by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. In this film, Tom Hanks takes his dog and a robot out on the road in a post-apocalyptic world — curiously, it lacks any sense of danger and it undoubtedly boasts some amazing visual effects work. Tom Hanks plays Finch, an ageing, unwell inventor, who is perhaps the only person left alive on Earth after a human-made environmental catastrophe destroyed the ozone layer and left cities half-buried in heat and dust. Now Finch scavenges for canned food by day and spends his evenings building an android called Jeff (a motion- captured Caleb Landry Jones) which has a Borat/Stephen Hawking electronic voice. Jeff goofily learns how to walk, to drive Finch’s RV and to understand the world – and his main task will be to look after Finch’s other special friend, a dog called Goodyear, when Finch is dead.
So the character dynamic in this film is odd: it’s basically a three-way cute-off between Finch, Jeff and Goodyear and there are no other humans in the movie, except for the ones Finch remembers in harrowing flashbacks. While in their RV, Finch, Jeff and Goodyear appear at one stage to be pursued by someone in a car, and then… Well, these people, whoever they are, seem to just go away. Our heroes don’t run out of water or food and there are no battery-life issues with Jeff. At the very end, there is the crucial question of whether Goodyear can learn to love and trust Jeff the way he loves Finch, and it is Jeff who we are supposed to find sympathetic and relatable. Star Rating ***/*****
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When people make out they have silver cars. Um no, just admit it, that is in fact grey. You really are as boring as Joe Biden.
At the beach, when sand gets all caked around the top of your bottle of suncream.
When the 'low ink' message pops up on your PC screen.
When you receive a text message only to find out it is some load of rubbish from your operating network. When you attempt to speak Spanish only to be met by a baffled Spaniard who has clearly not understood your phrase, which involved a 20 minute rehearsal period beforehand.
At the supermarket when things don't have prices.
When you walk under balconies and the dwellers’ plant water drips on to your head. Well at least we assume it's plant water, but who really knows eh?!
When the one time we get stuck out and urgently need to make a phone call, we happen to forget the mobile, or realise a little too late that the battery is dead.
When people who can’t sing choose to sing.
When a dog sniffs his chum’s mess then licks you. Nice!
When people decide to rearrange their furniture in the apartment directly above yours at 4 o’clock in the morning.
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Let's put all retired folk in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the seniors would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment and wheelchairs, etc. and they'd receive money instead of paying it out.
They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly if they fell or needed assistance.
Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them. A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell.
They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose. They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education.
Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, pijamas and legal aid would be free, on request. Private, secure rooms for all with an exercise outdoor yard with gardens. Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls.
There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to.
The "criminals" would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised.
Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay £900.00 per month and have no hope of ever getting out.
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