Original, Creative and Funny

Rating: 9/10 (22 March 2009)

The movie is based on a short story, it describes the life of Benjamin Button, who's mother died during his delivery, and who's father put him on the doorsteps of home when he is born with the appearance of an elderly man. The home, run by a black maid named Queenie, takes him in as a son, and people begin to see that he is in fact aging backwards, from old to young. But you wanna know what's funny? For all its preaching about unpredictable events, Benjamin button lives a pretty normal life. He worked on a boat, he worked in the navy, and then he operates a toll booth. That sounds pretty average to me, and I found personally that Benjamin Button is more of a science-fiction character than a human being. The fact that he spends his whole life seeing his friends die off is interesting.