“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 backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man’s life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, “Benjamin Button,” is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
Caught the movie with The Ang. It was superbly nice and meaningful. Its beautifully shown how someone will live his life backwards, seeing things in reverse.
The way the movie was narrated was kinda the old way, 1 voice transiting into another. i like it. I especially like 1 part where Brad Pitt was narrating about how 1 small action will lead to another which in turn leads to the accident.
Definitely worth going to the cinema to watch. Highly recommended. And did i mention Brad Pitt acted so well??? In his old physical looks, he portrays the innocence of a kid in his eyes and when he started getting younger n younger, his thinking actually got more n more matured. Very good acting skills.
