Movie Review. I can't imagine many people wanting to see the movie twice. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button“, the closest thing David Fincher’s made to an Oscar drama, seeks to measure the grip of that handshake. The nearly three-hour film is expan… The screenplay is by Eric Roth, who wrote "Forrest Gump" and reprises the same approach, by having his hero's condition determine his life experience. How could we perform that act of love if we were aging in opposite directions? It is a magical movie... Benjamin Button is a finely crafted movie, with a more philosophical bent than any other big-budget fantasy of 2008. You may even shake your watch to check it is still going. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Sign up here. As I watched the film, I became consumed by a conviction that this was simply, Mr. There are worse films than The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and those 15 masterful minutes may well justify the price of admission. It tells the story of a man who is old when he is born and an infant when he dies. Rated PG-13 for brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a splendidly made film based on a profoundly mistaken premise. Does he remember her as a girl? In the film, Benjamin (Brad Pitt) as an older man is enchanted by a younger girl (Cate Blanchett). The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a monumental journey—as unusual as it is epic—that follows Benjamin’s remarkable adventure of romance and redemption from the end of World War I through the twenty-first century. Given the resources and talent here, quite a movie might have resulted. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button review. kate blanchett does a good job as well. Fitzgerald wrote a comic farce, which Roth has made a forlorn elegy. Watching it is an emotional experience, despite it's meandering pace (it could have -- should have -- been made leaner to make it even stronger). I loved The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. If time is fractured into branching paths ("Synecdoche, New York"), it is about how we attempt to control our lives. 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 backwards. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a magical, heartfelt, joyful and melancholy film, beautiful to look at and filled with wonder. No! This strange premise (and a hefty running time) demands a huge leap of faith from viewers. I am not particularly a fan of David Fincher and his work. Yes, you say, but Benjamin Button's story is a fantasy. It is also a film that hinges on the viewers' acceptance of a man aging in reverse. He grows younger, until he resembles Brad Pitt, and then a younger Brad Pitt, and then -- we do not follow him all the way as he recedes into the temporal distance. You can't go through life waving goodbye. THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a character-driven, star vehicle for Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt as a man who is born with a mysterious disease where he ages backward. I realize that. It will be viewed and valued decades from now. Director David Fincher ("Se7en," "Zodiac") leaves his violent thrillers behind to take on this technically ambitious romantic reverie on the ephemeral qualities of life and love, but after the ignored masterpiece that was last year's "Zodiac," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button… If a day repeats itself (Harold Ramis' "Groundhog Day"), each new day begins with the hero awakening and moving forward. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! It’s a film about a man ( Brad Pitt ) who ages in reverse, born old and grows young, seeing the world through a set of eyes unlike any other. It has been proposed that one reason people marry is because they desire a witness to their lives. I know I did. That's Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York." Roth's approach makes Benjamin the size of a baby at birth. For those up to making the jump, a moving and rather mind-bending experience awaits. I shuddered. F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story is expanded into a sweeping survey of 20th century history and culture as seen through the eyes of a man who is born old and grows younger through the century. Converts an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man aging backward into an overly long exercise in pseudo-profundity bearing little resemblance to its source. out of 13 nominations, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” , won three academy awards for best art way, best make-up and best ocular effects. But how did he prepare emotionally? Saddled out of the gate as the presumptive winner of this year's Oscar for Best Picture, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is top-heavy with expectations. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher.The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life. Don't have an account? Throughout the course of the film, Button (Brad Pitt) faces the struggles of making and losing loved ones as he embarks on life adventures whilst growing young. According to the oddsmakers at MovieCityNews, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is third among the top five favorites for best picture. The film was a really successful one when it came out on the screen and secures nominations for the academy awards in 13 different classs some of them are best histrion, best back uping histrion, best way, etc. It may be flawed, especially from a bloated script, but it still manages to be one of the more impressive films of the year. Expert voice work from Cate Blanchett, impeccable New Orleans accent, and a tired broken lilt later on indicating how old Daisy is. Still, it tries a little too hard to be profound without ever completely involving the emotions of the viewer. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a good film. The movie's premise devalues any relationship, makes futile any friendship or romance, and spits, not into the face of destiny, but backward into the maw of time. There is no lesson to be learned. 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