pseudo life philosophy

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2010)

Benjamin Button teaches us a multitude of great things about life: people die. Unbelievable. The portrayal of death in the beginning of the film is pathetic: a self absorbed daughter has a senseless conversation with her dying mother. Anybody who has ever seen a dying person has to puke if (s)he sees this clichéd, badly acted, completely nonsensical intro. But I guess some of the people who rated this film so highly probably even got touched seeing this... As for the rest: there has been exhaustive comment here on the weak points, here just a few in summary: -completely bad performance by Brad Pitt -lack of depth in all the protagonists -lack of message (altogether): the film is empty -full of cheesy clichés (...) How could someone like David Fincher ever go so low?