Dementia romanticised

Rating: 8/10 (28 August 2011)

When someone gets Alzheimers, that person becomes quite often childlike and I am pretty sure that this film is based upon that fact and not the freak genetic disorder. However, the subject of dementia is only briefly touched at the end of the film and the story is actually more about life. They have decided to cover life from beginning to end and that's quite a lot material to cover, so be sure to make time for this one. Luckily for me the movie never grew dull for me, unlike some fastlaner's reviews I have read. When you do not take Benjamin Button's age to literally, a lot of life's truths are revealed like; for everything is a time and something good never lasts forever. This all is brought to you in a very lightweight charming story that never really becomes really dark, even though some really heavy subjects are brought to light. 8/10