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It must indeed be a very strange world when you are born old and gradually become young, but then you really wouldn’t know anything different so perhaps it might not quite be as strange as I first envisaged. It’s not the sort of thing you really give much thought to unless of course your name happens to be Benjamin Button ( Brad Pitt ). When he was born Benjamin was not your usual fresh-faced child, he was wrinkled old and some would say ugly. I personally have no problem with looking old we all have it to come whether we want it or not. I can’t say I’m looking forward with glee to being wrinkled, but hey if that’s part of it then what can I do.
His mother having died and his father somewhat ashamed of the way his new son looked life didn’t look like it had much of a future for Benjamin. Everyone shied away from him, no-0ne particularly wanted to be close to him, except that is for Queenie, ( Taraji P. Henson ) a lady of ethnic persuasion and one who found love for someone for whom no-one else could. Queenie ran an old folks home and therefore initially only the old people saw Benjamin. As he aged so to speak he was becoming younger, and it was in his seventeenth year that he decided to leave home and enter the wide wide world. He had made friends with Daisy aged 7 ( Elle Fanning ) and older ( Cate Blanchett ) and on his adventures and visits to different countries he promised he would send her a postcard from everywhere.
As he gets younger Daisy gets older and the relationship slowly evolves, it’s a bit shaky and sometimes seems very distant. The story is narrated by Daisy’s daughter Caroline ( Julia Ormond ) and she seems fascinated by the whole idea. I found that it parts it seemed to jump and I kind of lost the plot, but it isn’t really that complicated. You would think that perhaps someone in the medical profession might have noticed the strange case of Benjamin that was going on, but it would appear that no-one notices except those close to him. It is a touching tale with some very good performances and one, which although at first was not too keen on gradually, got drawn into. There didn’t seem any need for spectacular performances since the strange storyline seemed to take care of everything.
The film I thought was well directed by David Fincher and the screenplay/story provided by David Roth was very well written. An intriguing tale which left me a bit lost, well surprised. It does take a bit to get into being that the general outline is definitely a bit weird. Weirdness and strangeness aside it was a thought provoking and interesting film, which had one serious fault. It was way way too long. I really think that it could have been much shorter and still held the audience captured. It is the kind of movie that’s stirs something inside, but I’m not 100% convinced that that something should be stirred, slightly aroused perhaps. There are a few twists in the tale but as you watch they are pretty obvious. It is quite hard watching someone unlearn to walk and speak, and it is somewhat off putting, but overall the film had me held for the complete length which as I mentioned was definitely too long.
If you are into films and are especially into something different, then you need search no further on the shelf past the letter B, for indeed you will in all probability find this film both strange, intriguing, and perhaps even somewhat alarming. You will I hope also enjoy it as much as I did, although I was pretty convinced at the start that it was not a film I would like I ended up really enjoying it.
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surveysista1988 10.06.2009 (10.06.2009)
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