Most people spend years trying to forget how fallible they are...but it always catches up with you, whenever someone you care about is ill, whenever someone dies.
For a whimsical Tim Burton-esque story about a man who ages backwards, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button really hits this point home.
In an inititially heartwarming – but then heartbreaking – tale, the overriding theme here is that nothing ever lasts.
Prepare to see Brad Pitt as you’ve never seen him before. Based on the 1920s F.Scott Fitzgerald book, Benjamin Button (Pitt) is born as a man in his 80s ‘with one foot in the grave’.
Unwanted and rejected, he ends up living in a retirement home and gets used to death from an early age. But he also finds acceptance and love.
While he may look like the other residents living out their silver years talking about the weather, Benjamin has the natural curiosity of a young child. It’s so bizarre but it really draws you in and whatever age he is, incredibly, the character looks unmistakably like Brad Pitt.
Over the years, you see the episodes of his life as he gets younger, experiencing things in a unique way and meeting fantastic people. He then meets the love of his life Daisy (Cate Blanchett) and they find happiness when their lives cross and they are both in their 40s.
You can probably guess the outcome of this relationship but it will still pull on your heart strings.
This is a very different type of film for filmmaker David Fincher, who normally directs darker thrillers like Seven and Fight Club, but it suits him well.
No film has examined pain, regret and loss more succinctly in quite some time.
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