"long you live and high you fly, and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry, and all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be"

Rating: 6/10 (21 January 2009)

So the most important awards for the Americans are right on the corner and that means that in commercial cinemas here in Mexico City interesting films, well at least on the paper, will be released before the ceremony takes place. Last Friday came finally to city both the new David Fincher feature film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and the first part of Steven Soderbergh's take on the revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara The Argentine. On the paper both looked really interesting to me, finally in 2009 I really wanted to go to the cinema to check some specific picture and not just the one that was going to be showed right away.
On Friday I went to see Fincher's and on Saturday Soderbergh's. With Fincher's I was there more or less because of him unlike with Soderbergh's since The Argentine was going to be my very first Soderbergh film. Anyway, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has a fine cast, certainly a fine, really big budget and a really interesting story, after all I liked the film, found marvelous things, very interesting and complex parts yet I think of Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, this last is definitely my least favourite and certainly I have yet to watch (and I hope to enjoy) Alien³, The Game and Panic Room.
Overrated, fine, perfect adjective for this film. The story is interesting, a fine love story, there are parts that are more than memorable, really worked to create a marvelous love story. Benjamin Button and Daisy, certain points in their love story, as I guess you know Benjamin born and he was not really a normal baby, he born and he was already old. He was certainly just a kid and he enjoyed the time with another child, with Daisy, they relation as friends was not allowed. These two will certainly meet again, they will have a normal relation, is again interesting when their daughter born, is great because it lead us again to an interesting moment, they know their love is impossible but the love of each one to the other is forever. Now is more the love of a mother the love of Daisy.
Overlong, another fine, another perfect adjective for this film. At one point Daisy was in Paris and he suffered a really bad accident. Why not say that, just that? But instead we have the explanation of certain things that happened, things that could change the fact that now Daisy suffer in a hospital. Anyway, many write about Forrest Gump (I remembered the 2005 version of King Kong) as they write that this is the very best work of Fincher and Brad Pitt. For me this is not the best work neither of Fincher, Pitt and Cate Blanchett and if you talk about awards, more specifically about Oscars I can say that Benicio deserves more after the recognition in Cannes yet he doesn't need any award.