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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
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Storyline
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences. |
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The Director
David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director and music video director. Known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Panic Room (2002), and Zodiac (2007), Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and his 2010 film The Social Network, which also won him the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for best director.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Benjamin Button is born old. Left by his father, a button tycoon, on the doorstep of a Louisiana nursing home, his wrinkly, decrepit baby body is raised by one of the caregivers in the home. As he grows older in years, his body grows younger. He meets a little girl named Daisy, and though he is her age, his elderly appearance keeps him from becoming her playmate. Instead, he waits out the decades, working as a hired hand on a tugboat, seeing the world, until the time comes where his age and his looks can both catch up and meet square in the middle. He returns to Daisy, hopeful that they can spend a few years together, before she grows too old and he grows too young to keep their romance going.
At its best, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a technical marvel and a warm-hearted, beautiful movie. At its worst, Benjamin Button is a desperate, overblown exercise in sentimentality. trying very, very hard to get a reaction that really shouldn’t be this difficult to get. It wants you to feel romantic and wistful and sad, but it takes such a detour-laden path to get there, that the film never earns those honest emotions from the audience in response. The last time I can think of where someone spent this much time and money and tech whiz-bang trying to get an audience to cry a little was Bicentennial Man, the multi-generational Robin Williams sci-fi love story.
If Benjamin Button is primarily the love story between Benjamin (Brad Pitt) and Daisy (Cate Blanchett) , and I think that it is, since the movie is framed by Julia Ormand as Daisy’s daughter, reading aloud from Button’s diary to Daisy while she waits on her death bed on the eve of hurricane Katrina ...
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reviewed by filmcans (Filmaster.com) on the 7th of June 2009
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Clever, interesting. One to watch for sure.