A Beautiful Movie: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button



Posted: Saturday, June 13, 2009

by Julie Newman

F Scott Fitzgerald wrote the incredible story that became the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Its focus is on matters of the heart, difficulties, and misfortune. It is a crisscrossing story that has a heartrending affect on the viewer. The man, Benjamin is born in the beginning of the 1900's. For some reason at his birth he is 80 something years old. He is a portly, decrepit old man who gets younger as the movie goes on.

Assumed to be deformed, Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) is abandoned at birth and left on the doorstep of Queenie (Tarajii Henson), an African-American woman who happens to operate a senior boarding home. Despite Buttons physical amoralities, Queenie, unable to have children, raises the man-child as her own. While living amongst other seniors, the aged Button meets the young Daisy (Cate Blanchett). This chance encounter leads to an instant connection that develops into a haunting, intricate, love paced throughout their respective varying life cycles.

The discordant aging of Benjamin and Daisy make for a complicated and nearly unsustainable love connection. David Fincher (director of Seven and Fight Club) manages to untangle the love tale with his well done directing. The screenwriter, who also wrote Forrest Gump and Munich is Eric Roth. How they made Pitt and Blanchett become so realistically older and younger is a feat! The cinematography alone was enough to astound. How they manage to take 21st century events and mix them up with 20th century flashbacks is very nicely done. They were right on target with the Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Directing, and Picture.

Button, now released on DVD, is offered in an array of DVD formats that compliments this visual stunner. First, any film connoisseur will yearn to own the two disc special edition released by the Criterion Collection. The Criterion Collection, recognized as the crme de la crme of DVD distribution, covets important classic and contemporary films and releases them with irrefutable DVD quality, features, packaging and overall unassailable presentation.

Although the double DVD is incredibly packed with goodies, you can also get a single disc packaged with some nice features of its own. There is always the hi definition option in crystal clear Blu-Ray. This movie is so collectible that it doesn't matter what format you get it in, just get it!

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