An amazing movie that everyone must see!

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2011)

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was an interesting film that I never would've really watched if it wasn't for this film class. It seemed very odd when I had seen previews for it. I never looked at any reviews and knew little of this movie going into it. I thought it was going to a long and boring movie, but to my surprise it was definitely a great movie. This movie was about a man named Benjamin Button (played by Brad Pitt) and Daisy (played by Cate Blanchett) and pretty much about their love and Benjamin's life. Benjamin was basically born an old man and as he grew older, his looks and body grew younger. His mother died while giving birth to him and his father thought he looked horrible and left him on the steps of a senior home. This was fitting because he looked like an old man and looked like he belonged there. He was taken care of and loved by the caregiver at the senior home. While he lived at the senior home he met Daisy when she was about five years old and from there it grew from friendship to love. Benjamin went off and discovered the world and constantly sent post cards to Daisy telling him of his life and his adventures. As Benjamin got younger in appearance, everyone else around him was growing older. Ben and Daisy finally ended up getting together when she was in her mid-thirties I believe and lived together happily for many years. When Daisy is on her death bed during Hurricane Katrina she tells her daughter of who her real father is by having her read Benjamin's diary.
The theme of this movie is coming of age/loss of innocence/growing awareness. Although Benjamin appeared as an old man at the beginning of the movie, his mental age was that of a five year old. The doctor's had never seen anything like it before and thought that Ben would not live very long when he was just a baby. Benjamin ends up living a very long life and experienced many things, including love. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was also about not taking things or people for granted. This movie reminded me a little of the movie Jack with Robin Williams, this movie is about a boy who's body and appearance is much older than he really is. He has a disease which makes him age four times faster than any other normal human being. Jack is also a coming of age movie where he ends up going to school and meeting friends who accept him for who he is and tells of his life as a kid who looks like a grown up and just wants to belong and live a normal life. In the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, there was a scene in the movie when Ben and Daisy are with Daisy's grandmother and the grandmother is telling them both a bed time story. After the grandmother is finished reading the story, they both want her to read it again. You can see the similarities between Ben and Daisy even though he looks like an eighty year old man his mental state is that of a five year old. Another scene is when Benjamin drinks alcohol for the very first time and throws up from drinking too much. He looks like an old man but he is actually in his teens I believe. The acting was done very well by both Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The costumes and scenery were both in relation to the story. Never once did I notice anything that was not matching up to the storyline. The lighting on Daisy when she was in her twenties was a very soft and warm glow that she had about her during these years as well as when Benjamin was getting younger the lighting was making him look more alive and vibrant.
This movie was heartwarming, sad, and at times funny. I absolutely recommend this movie to others to watch. It was by far one of the greatest movies I've seen this year. This movie makes you think about your loved ones and appreciate them that much more.