I cried! And I'm a man!!!! lol

Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2009)

While everyone is saying how Benjamin Button is a reaffirmation of life (which it is, I agree), I can not help to notice just how alone this movie makes you feel. The film tracks the life of Benjamin, and how unusual it is, and explores the desires of everyone in the process of growing old (which btw IS everyone!). The over riding theme is that everyone who wants to be young again be careful, you may just get what you wish for! And the alternative to growing old, namely growing young, is just as alienating process as the one we all must experience. Button, like everyone else, is at the mercy of time. And I'm sorry, but the image at the end of a child feeling as if he's forgotten a life is somehow exponentially more tragic than an 80 yr old experiencing the same thing. This is an epic tale, filled with love, losses and life. And somehow the one thing that can not be escaped, can never be escaped, is the overwhelming sense of helplessness against the effects of time. btw.... anyone think of BB birth being an answer to the clockmaker's prayer? Pretty horrific and telling. You can't avoid the tragic nature of the passage of time, one way or the other.