Boring Case of Attachment Disorder

Rating: 1/10 (15 January 2011)

I love Fincher. 'Fight Club' and 'The Game' are definitely on my favourites list. This movie left me cold. At least I was knitting so I don't consider those nearly 3 hours as wasted. But alas! such a nice idea utterly destroyed...
The plot has many inconsistencies let me name just few:
1# I don't see the reason why Benjamin's mind is getting old too. Dementia as we all know has biological causes and has a lot to do with our bodies getting old. It would be much more fascinating if instead of being a demented child he would spread wisdom of his old age as a three- four years old. If there was any deep experience in his life, that is...
2# Although every single relationship in his life is supposed to be very deep and meaningful it is very hard to believe so because he doesn't seem attached to anybody including 'love of his life' - Daisy. Yes, they meet now and then and have a child together but it looks mostly like a fling nothing more. It's far too easy for him to leave her, as if he knew that getting younger he would be even more irresistible for her :) I caught myself thinking that maybe it's because his mother died at his birth and his father abandoned him. But we are to believe that this black woman was born to be mother (despite putting him inside a drawer at first) - if she was such a good mother - how come that he had such a blank stare at her funeral?
3# Daisy never tells her daughter about her dancing career despite the fact that she has a ballet school, so I assume she was claiming no experience whatsoever to her pupils, right?
In general I think that Brad Pitt's acting was terrible. Frankly - it wasn't probably his fault because out of this boring droll of a cinematographic art only 15 minutes or so where suited to his personality but sadly those 15 min consisted mostly of him riding motorcycle in a nice landscape or shacking up with the most cold and wooden chick around. Their passion was as believable as his peculiar condition. And his condition makes him never really old or young and never ever getting a pair of balls.
As somebody nicely pointed out - no conflict whatsoever - it's not a surprise when there is no attachment. There was no grief, no anger, no real suffering. He is dull and alone but doesn't even develop any interesting addiction. How about trying to stop his fate? He is never growing up and acquiring any wisdom.
At the end I drop some tears and in retrospect I think it was my gut reaction to see 'mother' with a dying baby.