Benjamin button. Deliberately made-out classic.

Rating: 7/10 (13 November 2011)

CCBB was a short story written by Scott Fitzgerald in 1922. Its about a boy who born with a rare disease called 'Progeria'. Progeria is a reverse aging disease. Simply said the boy was born as an old man and dies as an infant. This is what the short story spun about. The film is based on this short story mainly on its name and the reverse aging disease.
The story and happenings of a boy, Benjamin, born with such a disease has lots of curious things to handle in a single life. The original story dealt mostly that point. But this film's script completely deviates from this point and spins around an old-age home, sea voyage, pearl harbour (pathetic deliberate sequence), affairs of Benjamin, ballad dancing and a 95 years Titanic 'Rose' kind of memorabilia. The audience never had a chance to feel what Benjamin feels on various occasions on situations that arise with his aging problem.
The script is deliberately poetic but did not make the impact. In Few places it looks good though; the relationship between Benjamin and his original father, some dialogs 'nothing ever lasts.. it's a shame'...and some parts of the final sequence etc. Brad Pitt and other actors did their part well though. Benjamin's 'mama' started to be an interesting character and left out in the middle and then flattens. Photography, Sets and musical score are all good but stand out as flannel-mouth pieces.
So don't go with high expectations when you watch this film about reverse aging because this film does not show anything about the problems or the process of reverse aging. But otherwise you would get a decent, flat, normal love story which is more than enough for most of us. So you may not get disappointed. My rating 7 out of 10.