The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008
Directed by: David Fincher
Screenwriter: Eric Roth (based on story by F. Scotr Fitzgerald)
Music by: Alexandre Desplat
Photography by: Claudio Miranda
Genre: Fantastic/Romance
Main actors:
Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button)
Cate Blanchet (Daisy)
Taraji P. Henson (Queniee)
Julia Ormond (Caroline)
Jason Fleming (Thomas Button)
Tilda Swinton (Elizabeth Abbot)
The curious case of Benjamin Button is a beautiful movie, an injection of poetry directly to heart. Fincher’s staging couldn’t be more precise and effective, all the elements seems to suit together harmonically perfect.
The movie is an extraordinary reflection of the inevitable course of time. The fact that Benjamin was born being an elderly man and with the pass of the time he gets younger and younger makes the viewer realizes that even with a different way to face life the lesson is the same: everything in its own good time. We learn as Benjamin does that we can shun death, it’s the end of our path but until then we have many things to do and to enjoy. I have had a strange feeling watching the film because for the first time in my life I wasn’t afraid of death, it’s something I see far away and from now on I have the conscious that it’s necessary to think about the end sometimes; the death it’s what make our life so special and unique.
I am fascinated when I think about fate, destiny and predetermination; eternal reflections of human nature. In The curious case of… there’s a sequence in which Daisy is knocked down by a car and she breaks her leg. The way that David Fincher shows the accident deserves to be underlined. We contemplate a succession of facts with different unexpected events that change the normal course of the daily routine of some anonymous people (a girl that has a phone call, a man who forgets his coat, etc.) and when they finally are in the street a taxi driver almost run down them. The taxi driver is delayed a few minutes and when he passes in front of the ballet academy, Daisy is going out and… The movie it’s not saying that destiny exists; it reminds us that even if we apparently know that some incredible things happen without an explanation we have to be constantly conscious of that and be prepared for unexpected events because humans aren’t omnipotent. The almighty nature it’s totally unpredictable, the thrill of the hurricane Katrina when Daisy is in the hospital consuming his last second of life couldn’t be more eloquent.
The performances deserve a place in the actor’s hall of fame. Brad Pitt, a splendorous actor, displays an infinite compendium of resources introducing his innate charming and gestures in a computer technology and he experiments an incredible transformation until become Benjamin Button. He makes homage to his career, rediscovering and remembering himself in his earlier plays when he was young and innocent. In that movie I felt in love with Kate Blanchet, his journey across different moments of Daisy’s life is pure emotion; it comes from the real life of a character with a deep psychological charge. The deathbed scene in the hospital with his daughter (a marvellous Julia Ormond in a secondary role) creates an emotional and nostalgic atmosphere; the viewer feels and identifies the emotions of a mother that is saying goodbye to his daughter symbolically using the personal diary of a unique person that has distinguished her life, Benjamin Button.
Obviously, I have felt extraordinary and amazing emotions watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I have thought a lot about the movie and I have the presentiment that if I watch the film again being 40, 60 or 80 years old, I will experiment completely different feelings but I’ll be even more fascinated because I will be travelling parallel to Benjamin through my own life. I highly recommend the film for all the audience because it’s a journey from life to death, in which you can rediscover unknown sides of your own nature; there’s only one need: open the gates of poetry.
Directed by: David Fincher
Screenwriter: Eric Roth (based on story by F. Scotr Fitzgerald)
Music by: Alexandre Desplat
Photography by: Claudio Miranda
Genre: Fantastic/Romance
Main actors:
Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button)
Cate Blanchet (Daisy)
Taraji P. Henson (Queniee)
Julia Ormond (Caroline)
Jason Fleming (Thomas Button)
Tilda Swinton (Elizabeth Abbot)
The curious case of Benjamin Button is a beautiful movie, an injection of poetry directly to heart. Fincher’s staging couldn’t be more precise and effective, all the elements seems to suit together harmonically perfect.
The movie is an extraordinary reflection of the inevitable course of time. The fact that Benjamin was born being an elderly man and with the pass of the time he gets younger and younger makes the viewer realizes that even with a different way to face life the lesson is the same: everything in its own good time. We learn as Benjamin does that we can shun death, it’s the end of our path but until then we have many things to do and to enjoy. I have had a strange feeling watching the film because for the first time in my life I wasn’t afraid of death, it’s something I see far away and from now on I have the conscious that it’s necessary to think about the end sometimes; the death it’s what make our life so special and unique.
I am fascinated when I think about fate, destiny and predetermination; eternal reflections of human nature. In The curious case of… there’s a sequence in which Daisy is knocked down by a car and she breaks her leg. The way that David Fincher shows the accident deserves to be underlined. We contemplate a succession of facts with different unexpected events that change the normal course of the daily routine of some anonymous people (a girl that has a phone call, a man who forgets his coat, etc.) and when they finally are in the street a taxi driver almost run down them. The taxi driver is delayed a few minutes and when he passes in front of the ballet academy, Daisy is going out and… The movie it’s not saying that destiny exists; it reminds us that even if we apparently know that some incredible things happen without an explanation we have to be constantly conscious of that and be prepared for unexpected events because humans aren’t omnipotent. The almighty nature it’s totally unpredictable, the thrill of the hurricane Katrina when Daisy is in the hospital consuming his last second of life couldn’t be more eloquent.
The performances deserve a place in the actor’s hall of fame. Brad Pitt, a splendorous actor, displays an infinite compendium of resources introducing his innate charming and gestures in a computer technology and he experiments an incredible transformation until become Benjamin Button. He makes homage to his career, rediscovering and remembering himself in his earlier plays when he was young and innocent. In that movie I felt in love with Kate Blanchet, his journey across different moments of Daisy’s life is pure emotion; it comes from the real life of a character with a deep psychological charge. The deathbed scene in the hospital with his daughter (a marvellous Julia Ormond in a secondary role) creates an emotional and nostalgic atmosphere; the viewer feels and identifies the emotions of a mother that is saying goodbye to his daughter symbolically using the personal diary of a unique person that has distinguished her life, Benjamin Button.
Obviously, I have felt extraordinary and amazing emotions watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I have thought a lot about the movie and I have the presentiment that if I watch the film again being 40, 60 or 80 years old, I will experiment completely different feelings but I’ll be even more fascinated because I will be travelling parallel to Benjamin through my own life. I highly recommend the film for all the audience because it’s a journey from life to death, in which you can rediscover unknown sides of your own nature; there’s only one need: open the gates of poetry.
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Pol, this review is defenitely the best from all the ones you've posted. In addition, you haven't checked external reviews to write it this time and you should be very proud of it. By reading the text one can see very quickly you felt very comfortable writing it and the language you use is the adequate for the review format, I can only say "congratulations", you've done a great job! It's obvious you've improved your writing and learned many expressions and vocabulary, commonly used when talking about films, that you have also used this time with your own words. Well done.
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