The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By Anna Anderson

Imagine if you weren’t growing older, but growing younger. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button follows a man from birth all the way to his death. In this glorious production, you see when he does things such as get his first job, and when he falls in love. You will follow him through all his struggles and all his achievements.
From Warner Bros Pictures, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) was directed by David Fincher, the same man who directed Fight Club and Alien. This movie had actors such as Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button) and Cate Blanchett (Daisy Fuller). In the PG-13 movie, the story of Benjamin Button, who was born with a curious disease in which he was born old, is told through the perspective of his diary.
In the midst of hurricane Katrina, an old woman who is dying in a hospital in New Orleans has her daughter, Caroline, read the diary of a man named Benjamin. It was April of 1918 when he was born, after being abandoned on a door step by his father; Benjamin was taken in by a woman who ran a home for old people named Queenie. Queenie cared for and loved Benjamin as her son. Benjamin grew in that house and one day he met a young girl about his age named Daisy Fuller whose grandmother was living there. He loved her from the moment he saw her and that love never died. As Benjamin grew younger, he did many things; all the things a normal man would do. Get a job, fight a war, explore the world, own a business, fall in love and have a child. As Caroline reads the last lines of the diary and finds out the truth about Benjamin Button, the evacuation sirens are blaring and the hurricane has found them.
So many moments in this movie were intriguing and important to the movie but one that really caught me was when Thomas Button told Benjamin he was his father. The look of hurt on his face when Thomas said “I couldn’t stand the sight of you” was so real, I could almost feel it. Despite that, Benjamin was able to put that aside and ended up taking his father to the lake house to watch the sun rise. To Benjamin, the past didn’t matter.
I recommend this movie to anyone all ages. Every one will get something out of this movie, the only thing to be concerned about is the length so fidgety children may not want to sit for about 3 hours.