You Can ALWAYS BET ON MR. David FINCHER for a good flick!!!

Rating: Null/10 (15 October 2011)

I consider this guy the among the best directors in Hollywood. Rest of the pick are Ridley Scott, John Mctiernan, David Cronenberg, and Michael Mann.
This film has a very, very interesting topic about reverse aging and an engrossing character named Benjamin Button.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is based on a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Colliers Magazine on May 27, 1922. It was subsequently anthologized in his book, Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. Development rights to the story were held for years by the late Hollywood mogul Ray Stark. Stark retained those rights until his death in 2004, when they were purchased from his estate.
The film adaptation DIFFERS GROSSLY from the short story.
Brad Pitt, the actor I liked in Fincher's bleak thriller Seven, does a professional job in his role as Button. Cate Blanchett plays Daisy Fuller, Benjamins's lover. She also complements Pitt's character. Other notable actors are: Taraji P. Henson as Queenie, who adopts Benjamin and fulfills her role as a mother to him. Jared Harris as Captain Mike Clark Benjamin who offers Benjamin a job on his Tugboat. Rampai Mohadi as Ngunda Oti, a pygmy who befriends Benjamin.
Full Plot: In 2005, Daisy, an elderly woman, is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. Daisy asks her daughter, Caroline, to read aloud from the diary of Benjamin Button.
In 1918, a boy is born with the appearance and physical maladies of a very elderly man. The baby's mother dies shortly after giving birth, and the father, Thomas Button, abandons the infant on the porch of a nursing home. Queenie and Mr. "Tizzy" Weathers, who work at the nursing home, find the baby, and Queenie decides to care for him as her own.
In 1930, 12-year-old Benjamin, having exchanged a wheelchair for crutches, befriends six-year-old Daisy, whose grandmother lives in the nursing home. As Benjamin's body grows younger, he accepts work on a tugboat. Benjamin also meets Thomas Button, who does not reveal that he is Benjamin's father. In 1936, Benjamin leaves New Orleans with the tugboat crew for a long-term work engagement and starts an affair with Elizabeth Abbott, wife of the British Trade Minister.
In 1945, Benjamin returns to New Orleans, and learns that 21-year-old Daisy has become a successful ballet dancer. Benjamin again crosses paths with Thomas Button, who, terminally ill, reveals that he is Benjamin's father. Thomas wills Benjamin his possessions before he dies.
Daisy's dance career is ended in Paris in 1957, when she is hit by a taxi cab and breaks her leg. When Benjamin goes to see her, Daisy is amazed at his youthful appearance, but frustrated at her own injuries; she tells him to stay out of her life. In 1962, Daisy returns to New Orleans and reunites with Benjamin. Now of comparable physical age, they fall in love and move in together.
Daisy gives birth to a girl, Caroline in 1968. Benjamin, believing he cannot be a father figure to his daughter due to his reverse aging, sells his belongings and leaves the proceeds to Daisy and Caroline. He travels the world alone during the 1970s.
Benjamin, appearing to be in his early twenties, returns to Daisy in 1980. Now re-married, Daisy introduces Benjamin to her husband and daughter as a family friend. Daisy then visits Benjamin at his hotel, where they share their passion for each other. Daisy admits that Benjamin was right to leave; she could not have coped otherwise. Benjamin departs again.
In 1991, widowed Daisy receives a phone call from social workers. They have found Benjamin — now apparently about 12 years old — living in a condemned building, and have contacted her because they found her name in his diary. The bewildered social workers say that his condition resembles dementia. Daisy moves into the nursing home where Benjamin grew up and takes care of him as he becomes increasingly younger until, physically, he becomes an infant once more. In 2003, he dies in Daisy's arms remembering who she was. Benjamin's story now told, Daisy dies in her New Orleans hospital bed, as Hurricane Katrina approaches.
Verdict: Buy it on DVD! Other D. Fincher films I have seen that you may also like: Alien3(Directorial debut film 1992), Seven(1995), The Game(1997), Panic Room(2002).
P.S: I think Fincher was robbed off the best picture award!