movie review "Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
movie review "Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
May 12th 03:40
The apriorism basal The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ability complete added adapted for a science fiction account than a attentive drama. Indeed, the abstraction of a man crumbling astern has formed the base for added than one sci-fi brave adventure - from novels to an activated Star Trek adventure - but the antecedent actual for this blur is a 1922 abbreviate accounting by acclaimed biographer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The aboriginal "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" functions as little added than an afflatus for this movie, which takes the abstraction and the name and follows a aberrant aisle from the one mapped out by Fitzgerald. David Fincher's blur is its own article and, admitting some accessory flaws, it is acutely absorbing and one of the added arresting and emotionally beating actualization of the 2008 anniversary season.
Chaos approach - the abstraction that babyish perturbations in the accustomed adjustment in one abode can could cause ripple furnishings to be acquainted far and advanced - lies at the affection and physique of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The alone connected in activity is change and it happens whether apprenticed by fate (or kismet) or chance. One adorable vignette provides an absolute archetype as a car blow after-effects from a alternation of small, acutely altered acting incidents. Remove any one and that blow would not acquire happened. And, yield abroad the blow and the blow of the cine would acquire confused on a altered aisle against a alternating ending. Activity is like that. We never apperceive whether any accustomed activity will vanish like a rock tossed into a pond or whether the ripples of that bung will physique into a tsunami.
The blur takes us on a bout of the 20th century, even admitting it begins in the 21st. It opens in August 2005 in New Orleans, with Hurricane Katrina address down on the Louisiana city. Lying on her deathbed is an 80-year woman called Daisy (Cate Blanchett), who is getting abounding by her daughter, Caroline (Julia Ormond). To canyon the time, Caroline reads from the account of a man called Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), whose activity again intersected with and diverged from that of her mother. If there are gaps in the story, Daisy amendment abundant activity and animation to ample them in.
When Benjamin is built-in in 1918, he is finer an old man - the admeasurement of a babyish but afflicted with all of the problems of the aged. The bearing kills Benjamin's mother and, clumsy to cope with his son's aberrant appearance, Thomas Button (Jason Flemyng) abandons him. Benjamin is begin and aloft by Queenie (Taraji P. Henson). By the time he is 5 or six, he has developed abundant to arise like a angled old man of about 80. And, with anniversary casual year, he becomes younger. His aisle aboriginal crosses Daisy's if he is 13 and he confesses to her that he is adolescent than he looks. She will become the adulation of his life, but it will be decades afore they acquisition anniversary other.
If there's a Forrest Gump superior to the movie, that's unsurprising, because that the screenwriter, Eric Roth, was amenable for both scripts. Like Forrest, Benjamin is an outcast of society, and history marches by him in a alternation of vignettes. But administrator David Fincher's darker ancillary is in evidence. Benjamin does not allotment Forrest's charmed existence. For him, activity is not a box of chocolates, and Jenny does not lie at the end of the rainbow. The catastrophe of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may feel a little rushed, but it is aswell elegiac. Many may see this as a added developed adaptation of Forrest Gump, but it feels to me like something from the pen of Charlie Kaufman, who enjoys arena with time and conventions in abundant the way Fincher and Roth do here.
The blur is structured to comprise three above segments. The aboriginal represents Benjamin's childhood, if his acutely declining concrete actualization is belied by his accretion brainy agility. For anyone with his disability, he is decidedly able-bodied adjusted, but some of that comes from accepting a admiring mother. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button's additional act occurs just before, during, and afterwards World War II. That's if the capital appearance enters into an activity with a middle-aged British woman (Tilda Swinton) in Russia, serves aboard a tugboat during the conflict, and allotment home searching added able-bodied and advantageous than if he left. Finally, the third section of the addle follows Benjamin from average age into his aureate years, if he learns a few things about cede and redefining activity and happiness.
For the a lot of part, the acting is of the accomplished quality, with acknowledging performers like Tilda Swinton, Jared Harris (as the captain of the tugboat aboard which Benjamin finds service), and Julia Ormond authoritative the a lot of of bound awning time. Cate Blanchett brings action and spirit to Daisy. Brad Pitt, however, is hardly beneath successful. His assuming is solid but lacks the added aspect all-important to ballista it into greatness. If Benjamin looks old, Pitt plays him as old, not as a adolescent man trapped in a abundant earlier body. And if Benjamin looks young, Pitt plays him with the action of a adolescent man, not as an "old soul." The subtleties are missing and this may be the individual aspect that could accomplish it difficult for some to acquire the premise.
As far as that is concerned, either you accept Benjamin's bearings or you don't. The cine attempts to accommodate a little accomplishments for the about-face aging, but it's not abnormally convincing. As a result, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button have to be beheld on its own terms, as a bogie tale, or it absolutely fails. One affair that helps is the movie's amazing absorption to aeon detail. During the 1920s, it feels like the post-WWI bender era. The Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War times are all finer reconstructed and appropriate furnishings are acclimated to enhance the beheld experience, not to backbite from it by cutting the viewer. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is every bit as absorbing to attending at as the summer blockbusters, but there's a absolute adventure to go forth with the appealing images and almighty atmosphere.
Although the cine is presented as a alternation of vignettes, its abounding appulse is not acquainted until the accomplished is absorbed. Even the 2005 scenes with Caroline by her mother's bedside augment into what Fincher and Roth are adage about anarchy theory, fate, and the sometimes cruel jolts imparted by change. In the end, Benjamin's reverse-aging is just a clarify that allows us to accretion a hardly skewed acumen about the action of active and, conceivably by searching through that bottle darkly, a bigger compassionate of animal nature. Is that too abundant for a boilerplate cine to achieve? Perhaps, and I'm not abiding The Curious Case of Benjamin Button takes us as far down that aisle as it ability achievement to. But there's no abstinent the film's ability of coercion and the faculty that, if it's all over, it agency something. A lot of admirers will be entertained and moved, and some will acquisition their ability aroused. The antecedent actual may be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has appear a continued way from area it started 86 years ago.
Chaos approach - the abstraction that babyish perturbations in the accustomed adjustment in one abode can could cause ripple furnishings to be acquainted far and advanced - lies at the affection and physique of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The alone connected in activity is change and it happens whether apprenticed by fate (or kismet) or chance. One adorable vignette provides an absolute archetype as a car blow after-effects from a alternation of small, acutely altered acting incidents. Remove any one and that blow would not acquire happened. And, yield abroad the blow and the blow of the cine would acquire confused on a altered aisle against a alternating ending. Activity is like that. We never apperceive whether any accustomed activity will vanish like a rock tossed into a pond or whether the ripples of that bung will physique into a tsunami.
The blur takes us on a bout of the 20th century, even admitting it begins in the 21st. It opens in August 2005 in New Orleans, with Hurricane Katrina address down on the Louisiana city. Lying on her deathbed is an 80-year woman called Daisy (Cate Blanchett), who is getting abounding by her daughter, Caroline (Julia Ormond). To canyon the time, Caroline reads from the account of a man called Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), whose activity again intersected with and diverged from that of her mother. If there are gaps in the story, Daisy amendment abundant activity and animation to ample them in.
When Benjamin is built-in in 1918, he is finer an old man - the admeasurement of a babyish but afflicted with all of the problems of the aged. The bearing kills Benjamin's mother and, clumsy to cope with his son's aberrant appearance, Thomas Button (Jason Flemyng) abandons him. Benjamin is begin and aloft by Queenie (Taraji P. Henson). By the time he is 5 or six, he has developed abundant to arise like a angled old man of about 80. And, with anniversary casual year, he becomes younger. His aisle aboriginal crosses Daisy's if he is 13 and he confesses to her that he is adolescent than he looks. She will become the adulation of his life, but it will be decades afore they acquisition anniversary other.
If there's a Forrest Gump superior to the movie, that's unsurprising, because that the screenwriter, Eric Roth, was amenable for both scripts. Like Forrest, Benjamin is an outcast of society, and history marches by him in a alternation of vignettes. But administrator David Fincher's darker ancillary is in evidence. Benjamin does not allotment Forrest's charmed existence. For him, activity is not a box of chocolates, and Jenny does not lie at the end of the rainbow. The catastrophe of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button may feel a little rushed, but it is aswell elegiac. Many may see this as a added developed adaptation of Forrest Gump, but it feels to me like something from the pen of Charlie Kaufman, who enjoys arena with time and conventions in abundant the way Fincher and Roth do here.
The blur is structured to comprise three above segments. The aboriginal represents Benjamin's childhood, if his acutely declining concrete actualization is belied by his accretion brainy agility. For anyone with his disability, he is decidedly able-bodied adjusted, but some of that comes from accepting a admiring mother. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button's additional act occurs just before, during, and afterwards World War II. That's if the capital appearance enters into an activity with a middle-aged British woman (Tilda Swinton) in Russia, serves aboard a tugboat during the conflict, and allotment home searching added able-bodied and advantageous than if he left. Finally, the third section of the addle follows Benjamin from average age into his aureate years, if he learns a few things about cede and redefining activity and happiness.
For the a lot of part, the acting is of the accomplished quality, with acknowledging performers like Tilda Swinton, Jared Harris (as the captain of the tugboat aboard which Benjamin finds service), and Julia Ormond authoritative the a lot of of bound awning time. Cate Blanchett brings action and spirit to Daisy. Brad Pitt, however, is hardly beneath successful. His assuming is solid but lacks the added aspect all-important to ballista it into greatness. If Benjamin looks old, Pitt plays him as old, not as a adolescent man trapped in a abundant earlier body. And if Benjamin looks young, Pitt plays him with the action of a adolescent man, not as an "old soul." The subtleties are missing and this may be the individual aspect that could accomplish it difficult for some to acquire the premise.
As far as that is concerned, either you accept Benjamin's bearings or you don't. The cine attempts to accommodate a little accomplishments for the about-face aging, but it's not abnormally convincing. As a result, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button have to be beheld on its own terms, as a bogie tale, or it absolutely fails. One affair that helps is the movie's amazing absorption to aeon detail. During the 1920s, it feels like the post-WWI bender era. The Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War times are all finer reconstructed and appropriate furnishings are acclimated to enhance the beheld experience, not to backbite from it by cutting the viewer. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is every bit as absorbing to attending at as the summer blockbusters, but there's a absolute adventure to go forth with the appealing images and almighty atmosphere.
Although the cine is presented as a alternation of vignettes, its abounding appulse is not acquainted until the accomplished is absorbed. Even the 2005 scenes with Caroline by her mother's bedside augment into what Fincher and Roth are adage about anarchy theory, fate, and the sometimes cruel jolts imparted by change. In the end, Benjamin's reverse-aging is just a clarify that allows us to accretion a hardly skewed acumen about the action of active and, conceivably by searching through that bottle darkly, a bigger compassionate of animal nature. Is that too abundant for a boilerplate cine to achieve? Perhaps, and I'm not abiding The Curious Case of Benjamin Button takes us as far down that aisle as it ability achievement to. But there's no abstinent the film's ability of coercion and the faculty that, if it's all over, it agency something. A lot of admirers will be entertained and moved, and some will acquisition their ability aroused. The antecedent actual may be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has appear a continued way from area it started 86 years ago.
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