The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

 

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008

• Director: David Fincher
• Seen by this director: Gone Girl, The Social Network, Zodiac, The Fight Club, Seven, Alien 3
• Based on a story by: F Scott Fitzgerald
• Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julie Ormand, Jason Flemyng, Taraji P Henson, Mahershala Ali
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:

o   Brad Pitt – Ad Astra, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 12 Years a Slave, World War Z, The Tree of Life, Inglourious Basterds, Burn After Reading, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Babel, Fight Club, Meet Joe Black, The Twelve Monkeys, True Romance, Thelma and Louse, Johnny Suede, Too Young to Die, The Dark Side of the Sun

o   Cate Blanchett – The House with Clocks in Its Walls, Cinderella, The Hobbit, Hanna, Robin Hood, Elizabeth 1&2, Hot Fuzz, Notes on a Scandal, Babel, Little Fish, The Aviator, Lord of the Rings, Coffee & Cigarettes, The Shipping News, The Gift, The Man Who Cried

o   Tilda Swinton – The Personal History of David Copperfield, Doctor Strange, Hail Caesar, Snowpiercer, Only Lovers Left Alive, Moonrise Kingdom, Burn After Reading, Broken Flowers, Constantine, Thumbsucker, Orlando

o   Julie Ormand – My Week with Marilyn, Smilla’s Sense of Snow

o   Jason Flemyng – Sunshine on Leith, I Give It a Year, X-Men First Class, Hanna, Primeval, From Hell

o   Taraji P Henson – Hidden Figures

o   Mahershala Ali – Alita Battle Angel, Green Book, Hidden Figures, The Hunger Games Mockingjay 1&2

·       Why? I remember it as interesting.  

• Seen: Once before. Now 12 April 2023      

       The curious case being that Benjamin is born at the end of WWI into an 80-year-old baby body. He is adopted by a black couple (Henson and Ali) who work in an old people’s home. Instead of dying, he gets younger. And younger. He meets little Daisy and likes her. They continue to meet as he gets younger and she gets older.  They carry on with their lives and of course they become lovers eventually.

       Unfortunately, it’s not as interesting as I remember it. A bit gimmicky, really.

      

2 ½ * of 5