Finch story
Finch is a 2021 British-American post-apocalyptic dystopian science-fiction adventure comedy-drama survival film directed by Miguel Sapochnik from a spec script written by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. The film stars Tom Hanks and Caleb Landry Jones. Synopsis: Set in the aftermath of a devastating solar flare, a dying robotics engineer builds a humanoid robot to care for his beloved dog after he is gone.
13 total · 8 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with a terminal illness | major | Finch was dying of an unspecified illness. |
| humanoid robot | major | Finch built an advanced humanoid robot companion to take care of his beloved dog once he succumbed to the unspecified illness that was consuming him. The story follows Finch as he befriends his robot creation and teaches it about life. |
| maker and machine | major | Finch built an advanced humanoid robot companion that came to look up to Finch as a father figure of sorts. |
| master and pet | major | This is a story about a dying man named Finch who was taking pains to ensure that his beloved dog, Goodyear, would be well taken care of after he was gone. |
| planet scorching solar flare | major | The story is set ten years after a massive solar flare destroyed the ozone layer, turning the planet Earth into a largely uninhabitable wasteland. |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | major | The story is set ten years after a massive solar flare destroyed the ozone layer, turning the planet Earth into a largely uninhabitable wasteland. |
| stereotypically innocent character | major | The newly created humanoid robot companion, named Jeff, was naïvely unprepared for the world around him. |
| surviving in a wasteland | major | Finch struggled to survive in the largely uninhabitable wasteland that'd resulted from a massive solar flare striking Earth. |
| coping with the death of someone | minor | In the end, the robot Jeff had to come to terms with the grim reality that his creator had died. |
| grief | minor | Jeff was deeply disturbed by a butterfly splattered itself on the windshield of the motorhome he was driving down the highway. This was evidently Jeff's first encounter with death. |