Benjamin Button Blu-ray is Together classic in comprehensiveness and intimate in detail
At once epic in comprehensiveness and intimate in detail, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button blu-ray is actually the director’s most heartwarming film so far ( though Fight Club and Seven don’t 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), born in New Orleans as a baby with wrinkles, cataracts, and arthritis.
Benjamin will grow in reverse, getting younger as he watches those 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 bit girl and he is an old man.
They age in reverse, but regardless of Benjamin’s globe-trotting adventures, their lives repeatedly intersect. The script from Oscar winner Eric Roth bears more than a few 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 the fine acting are not its most provoking 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 simmers with intrigue whilst looking into the philosophical mazes and emotional ambiguities of its protagonist’s condition. It seems 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 marvel, it is an epic piece of storytelling with an incredible attention to detail. That isn’t to assert The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the most outstanding film of Fincher’s electrifying career, but it is simply one of the best of 2008 and the account sucks you right in and rarely lets go.