Movie Time: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I know you like movies. If you’re here, you’re family, and in my family we love watching movies. Now, the type of movie we see differs, of course, by the experiences in our lives, the non-movie things we like… you know, they differ by our personal tastes. For example, my favorite types of movies are comedies —especially digitally animated ones, à la Pixar—, action, adventure, and, although it’s only some, horror movies.
Drama, on the other hand, is one of those genres that I “meh” to. I seriously don’t like drama movies, I’m sorry. You have a compelling story to tell me, you have emotion, you have great scenery… blah. As previously stated: I seriously don’t like drama movies. Seriously.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I do have to say, though, some drama movies compel me. It’s all a mixture of great advertising posters, word-of-mouth, the trailers, the actors, even the titles. This is what comes in defense for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was the movie posters, the actors in it (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) and, yes, even the title which sparked my interest. I never got the opportunity to watch the trailers, though, so I had no idea what I was going to watch.
In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is based on a 1921 short story by North American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, you get to see life the other way around, in backwards motion. It’s a very… interesting proposition. Indeed a compelling concept. It’s a pretty long movie in comparison to most others at 2 hours, 46 minutes. Unlike other long movies, I never felt like the movie was feeling too long; I enjoyed every minute of it, never wanting the movie to end. I wanted more of the movie at the end… even though it was pretty obvious it had none. The movie ended. Period. I wish it didn’t. That’s how good it was.
The movie is rated PG-13 for brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking. I give this movie five out of five stars: excellent and highly recommended!
