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Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2011)

**THIS MAY CONTAIN A SPOILER** The story of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is about a boy who experiences life in a much different way than what anyone is use to. At birth Benjamin was already different than the rest. His mother died during labor and his father Thomas Button (Jason Flemyng) promised her that Benjamin would be safe. That's when Benjamin met his new mother and father on their doorstep at a house for elderly care. His new mother Queenie (Taraji P. Henson) worked there and loved Benjamin very much. That is where this magical story begins. Through time, friendships, war, death, sorrow, children, marriage, old and young age Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) ceased every aspect of life. Benjamin was born old. As an infant he was born with cataracts, arthritis, and other things that have him resemble an eighty year old man. The older he got meant the younger he looked. By the time Benjamin was a teenager his back was much straighter, hair a little thicker, and vision a lot clearer. Throughout the film Benjamin has always loved a girl named Daisy Fuller (Cate Blanchett). Their love is a love that definitely lasts the test of time. No matter what obstacle went through their lives they have always ended up back in each other's arms one way or another. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is romance, magic, and drama all in one bite. Benjamin Button directed by David Fincher was an excellent film. The film not only had great actors, costume (Benjamin as an old infant in the beginning), dark lighting set for the tone and feel of sadness or being there, and classical music for sound that brought to life Daisy's dancing, but the story itself was well put together. The movie started out at a hospital while Hurricane Katrina is in the midst in New Orleans. Daisy is laying there for what looks to be like her last few moments of life with her daughter Caroline by her side. Daisy's last wish is for her daughter to read a diary for her and that is where the narration took place. Benjamin's voice over telling the story gave life to the film and while switching back to present at the hospital gave focus for the film. This movie is full of death and disappointment but also love and fantasy for anything is possible. As Caroline reads the diary from her soon to find out father, I was stuck in the beauty of life at all stages. Even though Benjamin and Daisy couldn't stay together always because of his condition they end up back to each other in the end even when Benjamin has aged himself backwards into an infant until he passes away in Daisy's arms. Throughout the film Fincher also used every scene to the fullest. Each scene was meant to be there for some symbolic reason. The hummingbird for example in the storm on the boat Benjamin says he has never seen a hummingbird that for out before and that they represented love. In the end of the film right before Daisy takes her last breath you witness a hummingbird outside her window in the hurricane.