Benjamin Button

I saw a Hollywood movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
recently. It was a classic one.  I was compelled to think over the
story after watching it.  The story deals with a character namely
Benjamin button who is born old and gets younger physically with the
age. His name is Benjamin but his father holds a business in buttons,
thus the character is named Benjamin Button.

Benjamin the main character played by Brad Pitt is born old and his
mother dies during the delivery, his father rushes him to an old age
home where he is properly taken care of by a lady as his adoptive
mother played by Taraji P. Henson. A young girl gets fascinated by
him and he falls in love with her. Gradually with the time, the bond
grows stronger. He leaves his at after attaining a normal physic, he
leaves with a number of people of different type, he meets a lady whom
he falls in love with, a person who survived seven attacks and such
others.

 

In the later half of the story, the Benjamin meets with his childhood
love again and falls they get married finally, at this stage of life
both are of the same age. They enjoy the life, but the turning point
in the movie comes when Benjamin comes to know that he is going to
become a father. The conflict of an extraordinary father is very
nicely depicted in the movie. On one hand he is happy to become a
father while on the other he is thinking about the coming baby that
how would he is able to take care of that baby. After becoming a
father, he leaves his home saying that she needs a father, who will
grow older with her, who could understand her better, not a father who
grows younger with her getting older.

 

The story runs in the flash back with a daughter of the lady narrating
the diary of Benjamin to her ailing mother, without knowing that the
person was her actual father. The acting is fantastic all around. The
movie though does not relate to the real life but the extraordinary
story keeps the sudience bounded to the story. The use of techniques
to show the aeging and deaging has been –presented in very
extraordinary manner, which increases the originality in the story.

Brad Pitt as the Benjamin and Cate Blanchett as daisy have performed
out standing. She looks stunning throughout the movie. Watching the
movie one gets attached to the story so much that he can’t leave it in
between and three hours pass like anything. Taraji P. Henson as
Benjamin's adoptive mother, Tilda Swinton as another love of
Benjamin’s and many others are simply awesome.