Benjamin Button Blu-ray is At once epic in comprehensiveness and intimate in detail
Together classic in comprehensiveness and intimate in detail, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button blu-ray is certainly the director’s most emotional film so far ( though Fight Club and 7 do not offer much in the way of competition).
Loosely based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald tale, this romantic drama tells the tale of Benjamin Button ( Brad Pitt ), in New Orleans as a baby with wrinkles, cataracts, and arthritis.
Benjamin will grow backwards, getting more youthful as he watches everyone around him growing older. Included in that group are his adoptive mother, Queenie ( Taraji P. Henson ), and Daisy ( Cate Blanchett ), the love of his life whom he meets when she is a little girl and he is an old man.
They age in reverse, but in spite of Benjamin’s globe-trotting journeys, their lives repeatedly intersect. The script from Oscar winner Eric Roth bears more than some calling cards in common with his earlier work on Forrest Gump: both adaptations cross decades and continents.
But The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s script or even the fine acting aren’t its most galvanizing achievement ; the technology–both CGI and makeup–used to make Benjamin and Daisy age are outstanding, and makes the blue ray movies entirely believable, but they are actually helped by fine performances from both Pitt and Blanchett. The triumph of technology only serves to underscore the great thing about this film and of the love story at its heart.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button sighs with longing and cooks with intrigue whilst looking into the philosophical mazes and emotional enigmas of its protagonist’s condition. It turns out that skipping a ‘blowout’ garage sale she planned paid off for new actress Taraji P. Henson in fact, she told use in an interview after netting her Benjamin Button role.
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button is not just a technical wonder, it is an epic piece of storytelling with an incredible attention to detail. That isn’t to point out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the most outstanding film of Fincher’s provoking career, but it is easily one of the best of 2008 and the narrative sucks you right in and rarely lets go.