The Curious Case of Missing Thought

Rating: 3/10 (14 August 2010)

This is a bizarre story of a baby born with symptoms of old age grows up to become a baby with symptoms of old age. This is all there is to it.
As if this is not bizarre enough, the movie fails to establish any connection between different yet apparently significant episodes. Sexual promiscuity is the main theme, at least that is what it is made it out to be. Story moves from an episode to a different one which has no consequence on each other or on the life of the protagonist.
A baby boy is dumped by his father and later given all his father has got - a thriving button making business but this has no consequence in his life.
He sleeps with different women (including hookers) and this has nothing to do with anything in the movie.
His girl friend too sleeps with several men: no consequence whatever to this story.
Suspend your disbelief: A tug boat (on which lead character is working) overruns a German U-boat (yes, this is fiction of course) and yes you got it, that is inconsequential to Benjamin's life and story in general.
Benjamin learns to play piano; his foster mother dies; he abandons his girlfriend; several years later meets his grownup daughter (he just says 'hi'); and these are all disconnected with the plot that is supposed to be there.
And what the heck is a humming bird doing in the middle of pacific or at a hospital window in a storm?
Julia Ormond has no role other than just reading a diary and she is wasted, so is Brad Pitt, and so was my time watching this crap.