The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Crashingly Clumsy or Beautifully Brilliant?

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an extremely well-made film. It tells the story of Benjamin Button who is born old and he dies when he is a baby. Everybody in Benjamin’s surroundings grows older while Benjamin ‘grows’ younger. This makes Benjamin’s story so intriguing. When Benjamin is seven, (take note that Benjamin looks extremely old because he is ‘aging down’) he develops feelings for a girl, Daisy, who is the same age as he is. (of course, she is ‘aging up’.) as Benjamin grows younger and Daisy is growing older, they realize they’ve fallen in love with each other….

This could have been an extremely cheesy love story with sticky one-liners and a lot of deep-in-the-eye-looking. Luckily, thanks to the great acting of Brad Pitt (Benjamin) and Cate Blanchett (Daisy), those clichés are avoided. Love is a prominent theme within the film, but time and aging are even more important in this movie. 

I would like to give a tremendous thumbs-up to the folks who fixed the make-up for Brad Pitt. There are only several minutes in the almost three-hour-lasting film in which Brad Pitt is seen without make-up. The rest of the movie, either Brad Pitt looks younger or older than he really is.  

This movie with its intriguing storyline, great acting and magnificent make-up will be considered as a classic art-house film in the future. Without any doubt.