Cinema Release Date: February 4, 2009
Film already available on DVD since: August 5, 2009
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Time: 02h35min Production Year: 2008
In the field of the American movie industry, we always appreciate Tim Burton and Lewis Carroll. But in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, we are also surprised that it is so excellent a movie.
How could the director of the Fight Club and Alien 3 direct such a fantastic movie? And why he gives us so miraculous a movie. When David Fincher adapts a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he just wants to tell us something in terms of love and marriage by directing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
The film takes 2 hours and 40 minutes to tell us the singular life of Benjamin Button. The pace is languid, the scenes are good, although sometimes they are so melancholy. However, boredom never sets in, we are seized of fascination and excitement from the first to the last frame. The film is a bitter chronicle of passing time. after all, it is on a man’s life. Or rather the time of several lives that intersect in his life, which are lost and found…
Entrusting by an infinity of moods and magical familiar, focusing on a sublime topic, and capturing incredible moments with camera, the story unfolds smoothly and easily , espousing different points of a whole life. The reconstruction of each decade is breathtaking. But if the show is huge, there are still human. Painfully human. In this film Fincher explores the infinite sadness of our lives, the visceral fear of death at the beginning. As a man who is born as an old man and he dies in the guise of a newborn baby in the arms of his beloved, wrinkled and hoary. There are so many shocking scenarios that it touches our deepest heart. The questions continually arise to us. More than the fear of aging and dying is the fear of the extremes that we took, that of death as that of birth. The origin and destination of life are one in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Before coming to the world or after leaving it, there's only nothingness, the largest and most humane of all terrors.
The main quality of the film is succeeded in giving us a lesson. In Brad Pitt, he delivers a performance of actor irresistible. Button is childish and playful when he appears as an old man with a maturity. However, he realizes that it is disconcerting. There is something terribly poignant to see Brad Pitt who plays as a strong role through the ages. At some point in his career the image of young playboy has forged his legend he no longer owns it any more. Behind the character is the man who becomes conscious of his age and his own mortality. The rejuvenation of Benjamin Button is even more painful than reassuring: only film, a clever device that under no circumstances extinguish the anguish of age.
In this movie, the direct tells us that nothing lasts forever and people should cherish their time with their lovers. If life has an end, this film can keep the shine.
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