Odd and beautiful

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2009)

This odd story of a man who lives his life in reverse (i. e. from old age to babyhood) is told in a such natural way that we accept it as real. The movie is about the dichotomy between life and death, youth and old age, present and past, time and space, comedy and drama. The images are beautiful, the sound track music is wonderful and the characters move themselves, behave and talk with great delicacy and fineness in an almost poetical universe making us feel the huge drama hidden inside it. It also passes the message that love is such a powerful feeling that it can overcome all contrarieties and fatalities. All the players do a marvellous job making us feel intensively their dramatic roles. As outstanding we can mention Brad Pitt (Benjamin), Cate Blanchett (Daisy), Taraji P. Henson (Queenie) and Jared Harris (Captain Mike). This is undoubtedly one of the best movies of the last ten years.