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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Is and isn't a Classical Hollyw ...
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"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 aud ... " [More]