"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button".
*Disclaimer: Parts of the movie are being shared in the following blog entry. Do not read if you have not watched and you're in for suspense for the movie*
I would say it's a movie worth watching despite the slowness of the movie. Then again, it wasn't meant to be filled with action-building-momentum and it was a movie with the content all spread in front of the audience from the start. We all know that it talks about how this guy called Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), who was born under unusual circumstances, gets younger as he ages.
It was a mind-blogging yet meaningful movie. It hid a lot of subtle yet identifiable messages. For one, we should live our lives to its fullest despite the hardship we face, no matter how different we are from one another; savouring every beauty that we have been showered with since the day we arrive at this world. None of us is ordinary and there is always potential in us to push ourselves above our limits. Life is meant to be experienced, not wasted by letting the minutes tick by every day. Rid the rigidity and welcome flexibility and openess...
There are also parts in the story that were heart-wrenching. Benjamin lives a very lonely life. As he ages younger, people around him tends to grow naturally towards old age. Thus, he has to face many a death in his life since his young days. Not only so, the people that he knows seem to come and go and none ever really stays long, not even his loved ones. The movie portrays him as a lonely old man/man/teenage/boy, all the more with the "weird-ness" that he needs to endure with. He does not have the luxury of watching his daughter grow. Imagine how a mother would introduce her child to the father who's younger than the child. How devastating would that be... Benjamin needed to make big sacrifices and he knew that he had to live his life all by himself. Alone, yet not lonely; or maybe alone and lonely - I'm not really sure which life he led but it definitely was an emotional-filled character.
I cried when his daughter read those postcards written by him, knowing how he had to miss being a part of her life because of his condition. I cried when he suffered from alzheimer and Daisy (Kate Blanchett) had to care for him, from a young teenage till he died as a sleeping baby. I trickled another tear when I left AEON. That was how impactful the movie was to me. Emotional as I am, it touched me deep.
Hc was somewhat affected by the movie as well. It, to a certain extent, may be useful for him in deciding for his recent matters.
So, for those who are thinking about catching a movie, you can consider the Benjamin Button movie.
