Mar 16, 2009 02:16 PM
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(Updated Mar 17, 2009 11:14 AM)
It started with a curiosity. The curiosity raised many folds once the movie started and remained intact till the end. And almost 24 hours after watching the movie, I still find myself curious.
The curious case of Benjamin Buttonis a mysterious tale of a man who aged back, downstairing from a torn out senectitude to the softness of infancy. A new born old man, born with deceases like arthritis, whose mother dies in labour and father abandones him, leaving him on the stairs of a nursing home for the old people, which is taken care by a kind lady Queenie...
The outer appearance of Benjamin is hard to believe, but the inner life of this character is even harder to grasp as Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button a shows a gives a different dimension to acting skill - showing the shades of hesitation in his own ways of expressing the emotions and feelings of a difficult character like this.
The complication of this character is the strange blend of old physicality with the adolscent mind, which has to be measured and re balanced in every scene, not only through the make up, but also through the infinitesimal nuances of the expressions.
A man, who is mystifyingly unreal in his own unique way, who rather than being treated usual, becomes a matter of everybody's curiosity (including mine) starts his struggle to keep the pace with the fast running world with the help of his weak legs and a stick. With exposures to the worldly things, Honey and Dew, the young old man starts his journey of the world and after learning the bizarre tales of the life, comes back as a relatively younger and stronger Button. Everytime he goes away, he returns even younger and stronger.
But the surprise factor in the movie is an other Character, Daisy, who plays the movie’s emotional epicentre. she is a character who struggles and feels all the changes, who grew up as a beautiful adolscent, who strangely finds love in the obnoxiously bizarre Button, and the love flourishes older as Button matures younger, until the Old infant Button takes a last nap in his lady's lap watching her for the last time, before closing his innocent eyes. Benjamin dies there but the love still keeps flourishing with the Lady's age and keeps growing till she takes her last breath while listening to her daughter, who reads for her the diaries of late Button.
Incredibly amusing is to see how a simple story of obnoxious life of a person is transformed to a Fairy tale that keeps the transformation ever going to so many strange dimensions--- a love story of an dying man and an adolscent girl... to the love story of a matured old man and a young lady........ to the love story of a matured couple........ to the love story of a young boy with a matured lady.... to the love of an old lady for her infant husband!!! Whew... Hats off to the director!!
The movie is more than two and a half hour long, but never seems like stretched. After all, an almost century long journey deserves this much to be described. Isn't it? Somebody told me, long time back a television program was telecast on National channel in which, there was a character who grew back. So, can there be any controversy about the genuineness of the idea?
Characters:
Banjamin Button:- Brad Pitt has played his role of a lifetime. Daisy: -Cate Blanchett plays a character which is as strong as Benjamin itself. Cate has performed it with complete honesty. Third most Significant character is the Care taker of the Nursing home, who raises Banjamin.. sorry, don't know her name.
Director: - David fincher who comes out with a surprise package of a totally different Genre of movie after movie like Fight club.My Recommendation: - Must watch for those who don't watch movies only for three hour fun, but for the incredible artistic effort, may it be acting, direction or Graphic effects.My Rating: - 4 out of 5. One mark is lost because of its length. Rest four marks, because it never lets you move your heads away since start till the end. Thumbs Up from me!
