''Your life is defined by its opportunities... even the ones you miss.''Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Brad Pitt: Benjamin Button
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...( read more)ng short of genius. A genius to be expected of a seasoned visionary director such as David Fincher. In the past Fincher has given us the greatest stories and films that have ever graced the screen. Whether it be Fight Club, Se7en, Zodiac, under-rated Panic Room, or even the drab Alien3,(which still had glorious potential) all of his works are ones that make you think, ones that capture your attention and make you work them out, a puzzle of the greatest magnitude which involves you using the old grey matter. It comes as no surprise that Fincher's latest is perhaps the most romanticized, most glorious attempt at Fincher explaining life in a curious fable about a fictionalized character, from a short story.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a story of imagination, yet it's also a story of the raw unrelenting harshness that is nature, life and the confines of time itself. The premise being that a clock is made by a father whom loses his son during WW1, which ticks backwards, to grant the power to bring back all the ones who died, like his son, to counteract the harsh unrelenting merciless time which is forever pushing forward. Button asks us what if time went backwards for a person?As events occur, Benjamin Button is shown to us, abandoned by a grieving father, whom loses his wife during the birth, we find he's different. Benjamin is born old. Ironically he is given to a family whom reside in an old peoples home, Benjamin is ultimately different in the sense he starts his journey as an Old wrinkled scrap of a human being. Subject to all the ravishes of time.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button greatest achievements not only lie with the main story but within it's sub plots, it's whimsical sequences such as a man getting hit by lightening various times to symbolize life throwing unpredictable obstacles at us, in showing that life and random occurrences, are ones of unfathomable, unstoppable power.
The characters and locations also make life what it is. The same can be said of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it's a journey of the most imaginative kind, of originality and flair which breathes tragedy and loss into a truthful resolution of realistic yet fantastical happenings.''My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While everyone else was agin', I was gettin' younger... all alone.''
Performance wise, the whole cast add pure professionalism to every frame on display within The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Brad Pitt shines as Benjamin Button, although his performance is blurred by some dazzling effects of aging and even smoothing out to appear younger later on, he excels in showing us a very complex character. He's a man who's alone in the world, alone in the sense he's aging backwards unlike anyone else. We the audience oblige him by relating to his situation, I know I did. Who can say they don't feel alone in the unforgiving pacing of our lives. Not alot I would conclude, Brad Pitt makes us believe and feel for Benjamin, he makes us take the road and journey ultimately with him every step of the way.
Cate Blanchett as Daisy, is simply another effortless masterpiece of acting from a dizzying queen of the screen. I've lost count of the number of masterpieces Blanchett has graced the screen for, her talent unrivaled and dizzyingly effective, she is beautiful in youth, beautiful in her aged appearances effectively making us feel for her as much as we feel for Benjamin. This isn't just a story of his but a story of Daisy, whom we feel for, we experience with and our hearts float toward.
This is their story, a duo tale of two souls, both beginning from different parts of life. Benjamin starting off old, Daisy young, when they meet in the middle it's wonderfully romantic yet short lived, a frozen moment of happiness for the two, Pitt & Blanchett make us believe this is a surreal yet real occurrence of love, tested by a sick joke of nature, of time.
Other fine supporting roles definitely deserving a mention would be Tilda Swinton, Jared Harris, and Elle Fanning. They all simply add wonder to the imaginative array of assortment.Overall, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has 13 Oscar Nominations and a further 47 Award Nominations in general, and it's not hard to see why. This sort of rareness only comes about in a blue moon. This is Fincher's perspective and strike upon what the purpose of life is, and it's delicately dressed up as a fantasy bi-opic of mythical proportions. Fincher cleverly uses a reversed idea of time, a symbolic usage of Buttons connecting life together, reflecting people gluing events and one man together, memories and chain reactions all eclipsing regret yet warming it with their embrace. Nearly everything The Curious Case of Benjamin Button gives us is a metaphors or symbols for deeper ideologies. Ideologies that transcend simple explanation, that require re-thinking, pondering, discussion and time to reflect upon, reflect on all angles available.
David Fincher has buttoned together a masterpiece and a story that is unlike anything ever seen on the Big Screen. This is the cleverest fantastical way of showing life for what it truly is, too capture on screen the struggle of keeping love, of sacrificing it, and of losing a loved one, and ultimately accepting it, like in turn we must accept our own fate. Time being a perception and illusion, an invention of ourselves to label our own existence.''Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?''
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Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond, Taraji P. Henson, Jared Harris
"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages back...( read more
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December 25, 2009''Your life is defined by its opportunities... even the ones you miss.''
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
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December 13, 2009A melancholy meditation on life and death, growth and decay, love and loss, mirrored in a similarly juxtaposing fable of a man who ages against time. David Fincher's direction is outstanding, considering how difficult it must have been to give physical life to such an eerily unna...( read more)
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December 4, 2009The new Forrest Gump. Benjamin Button presents the perfect story of a different individual passing through history from a unique and beautiful perspective.
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November 18, 2009Some poinent moments that showcase periods and eras to our contemporary generation, also some high emotion and beautiful and fascinating concept. But strip it down and you are left with a weak structure which both actors have done before and leaves the viewer feeling slightly rob...( read more)
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October 14, 2009A slow paced film that has plenty of character. The poignant tale of Benjamin Button pulls at your emotions and brings you into the storyline. David Fincher has done it again with this original film and has a brilliant aging process in the characters, which looks exceptionally ...( read more)
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December 28, 2009Benjamin Button teaches us how to appreciate life today, not tomorrow nor the next day.
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December 28, 2009The best film I've seen since the begginig of time,bloody brilliant If I may say so,...I would recommend this film to everybody,..;)))))
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December 28, 2009Not sure if i want to see this film...Brad Pitt is a disappointing actor for me
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