Almost perfect

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2009)

The movie has very interesting and moving theme and is very well made. I really enjoyed the lost-and-found father of Benjamin and his father, the lost-and-found love of Benjamin and Daisy and even the stepmother's love.
In the beginning I was a little bored because it seemed to me the movie would turn a cheap comedy or worse soap opera movie but I was absolutely wrong.
The horde of simple themes connected together in such a light and touching way made me become Benjamin.
I enjoyed the true mother love he was given by a totally strange woman. I really felt very strange being a child in an adult body and I really wished to be useful. And so I underwent all the adventures on the sea, the public house visits. (Enough the story-line.) The second thing I truly fancy about the film are the actors' starrings. Mr. Pitt is really good actor and shows again and again he can handle a lot of roles not looking strange and unnatural, he was just the opposite.
Also Mrs. Blanchett poetric acting and almost higher sphere's apparel made the film just something better than the average films.
Anyway, there was one thing that spilled my impression and it was the unnatural body change of Benjamin. In the beginning it was fine, but when he was old and started becoming smaller and smaller, I didn't believe something like that could be ever possible (and yet don't believe so). I would rather appreciate him staying big and just getting the childisher and child-liker look. This way it looked like a fantasy to me and didn't fit the whole story line.
There's another thing I want to write about and its the similarity with Forrest Gump. I didn't find any, actually. Maybe there were some moments you can see something similar, but you have to try really hard. I saw the movie before reading any review on it and not being told about the Forrest I would never think of similarities there.
I enjoyed it really much and sincerely advise everyone to try it and enjoy it.