The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button: Em

“My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While everyone else was agin', I was gettin' younger... all alone.” This line alone captures the happenings of the new movie The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The movie is based of a short story by the famous F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The movie starts in a hospital room, where a daughter is watching over her dying mother. The mother begins to tell a story about a blind clock maker who makes a clock for a newly opened train station. There’s one catch though, the clock has been made to run backwards as a symbolic reference to Benjamin’s unique case. The remainder of the movie is narrated by Caroline (the daughter in the hospital room) as she reads to her mom from a mysterious journal that entails the life of Benjamin Button.

This movie was one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time (out of the mainstream at least, long live the IFC). The story was touching as Benjamin tried to get closer to his love, Daisy, but their physical ages kept them apart. The acting was very convincing, and the use of prosthetics was simply unbelievable. It amazed me that you could make an actor like Brad Pitt look so incredibly old; though I must admit at certain points in Benjamin’s childhood, he did look a little like Smeagol/Gollum from Lord Of The Rings. Also, Pitt’s accent (the movie takes place in New Orleans) did seem to fade in and out from time to time, as well as becoming incredibly heavy towards the end of the movie, which made him sound like Elmer Fudd.

I would recommend this movie to anyone and everyone. It is rated PG-13, for things do get a little sexual between characters at some points. I would give The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button four out of five stars. Bravo.