the only reason I write this comment: I am unable to see my vote for the past 3 weeks!

Rating: 10/10 (7 February 2009)

My opinion is that this is an excellent movie, because it is so different: in it's story line, in it's concept and in making you think. It doesn't follow the regular predictable chronological outcome.you cannot anticipate how BB will react in every event that accrues in his life: according to his physical or mental abilities, and what are those at this point? The love story is beautiful, in it's way that you need to fill blanks by yourself. It is told for you to interpret, anyway you want. the acting is very good especially by Brad Pitt and Taraji P.Henson (I found Cate Blanchett - whom I admire- too bombastic here). The movie was purely enchanting and beautiful,- in my eyes;the humor was great; and I was surprised that the movie is actually long. I thought,afterwords, about the fact that our life just passes so fast, and it leaves you at the end - if you die "naturally" from old age-helpless as an... ugly baby. Benjamin Button was born as a monstrous baby, abandoned by his grieving father, but he died as a gorgeous baby in the arms of the woman he loved, who during his life was his friend; his lover; his mother. So, was he lucky? It depends on how you accept life...