David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a beautiful film about a man who is born old and goes through his life getting younger. Though it may seem this was not the familiar love story as Benjamin Button’s (Brad Pitt) life is adventurous after being brought up by a family who found him abandoned on a door step. He meets women, falls in love and fights in WW1. The story eventually turns to a love story where he meets Daisy (Kate Blanchett) when he is an old man and she is a little girl. Eventually their paths cross when they are the same age and fall in love again. Benjamin has to leave Daisy and his child when he feels that he cannot raise a child when he becomes a child himself. The acting by Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchett is superb and the woman that raised Benjamin, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson) also played a fabulous role. There was a strong use of narrative codes as actors perfected the smooth southern accent which appeals to many and also cemented the audience’s belief of the characters place of origin. The directing by David Fincher’s captures the quality of acting by all main characters. The sets created in the film throughout the 1930 -40s are magnificent and surreal. The camera work to capture the battle on the boat against the German U-Boat was a sheer thrill as you felt as though you were right there. This science fictional love story with the use of special effects that portrays a 70 year old Brad Pitt shows audiences how far we have come with film technology. The film is a love story with an all star cast but is not the typically Hollywood Classical as there was not a happy ending as Benjamin leaves his family in the end and develops dementia. The intertextual references made compare this film to Forrest Gump as a love story that coincides a person’s life time in the United States’ past. In Forrest Gump, the main character meets the love of his life throughout the film in different times and settings which is a similar story line in Benjamin Button. Overall I give The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, two snaps up with a twist as I felt as though I was part of Benjamin’s adventures and the visuals were stunning.