zhu' Movie Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Fantasy Romantic Movie

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a classic masterpiece by David Fincher, released in 2008. The film is starred by famous movie stars Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt. The filming method won 13 nominations including Oscar's best film, best director, best actor, and won the best visual effects and best makeup awards. The film tells the story of Benjamin was born in Baltimore, New Orleans, USA in 1919 World War I Victory Night. His face was like a 70-year-old "old man" baby. His father thought it was a freak and abandoned him on the street. A kind black woman adopted him. Surprisingly, the growth of Benjamin violates the laws of nature. As he grows older, he becomes younger and younger, and in turn reverses the years of old age, middle age, youth, youth, children and infants.

picture

In 1930, Benjamin was 11 years old. He met the 6-year-old Daisy and they fell in love. Later, when World War II broke out, Benjamin came to the United Kingdom by boat from the United States. On the way, he met all kinds of characters, saw the real tragedy, and experienced the greatest brilliance of human nature. After the war, he and Daisy reunited in New York. At this time, Daisy was already a successful dancer. In 1950, their appearance looked almost different. However, Benjamin and Daisy spent the best time of their lives together. However, when Benjamin became younger and younger, he realized that he could no longer live with Daisy, and Daisy needed a more normal life. The director adopted a flashback in the narrative. The film is a cross between the memory and the reality. In the process of recollection, the film continues to return to the real passage.

picture
The inevitability of life is toward death and the calmness of the hero is in the face of death. In the film, there is also a comparison between the appearance of young people, Daisy and Benjamin, and the contrast between the middle-aged and the elderly, and the appearance of Benjamin, highlighting the strangeness of Benjamin’s life and highlighting the relationship between the two. The film has a subtle view of the fate of the individual. The intricate interaction of all things in the world creates the past, present and future of everyone, and no one can be outside. This kind of observation is most concentrated in many places in the film. Movies may have a natural advantage in the intricate aspects of expressing destiny. Montage's cutting and connecting of time and space can organize seemingly unrelated people and things according to internal logic, and all kinds of invisible connections become clear at a glance.

picture

It is worth mentioning that the species of hummingbirds appearing in the film is quite interesting. The hummingbird is the smallest bird in the world and the only bird that can fly backwards. The hummingbirds appear many times in the storyline of the film, which is meaningful. The symbolic meaning of the hummingbird here echoes the symbolic meaning of Benjamin and is related to each other. The hummingbird flies backwards, which coincides with the backward growth of Benjamin, but it seems to be intertwined with other natural phenomena or characters. The order in which time occurs seems to be abnormal in the class of Benjamin, and it also shows the naturalness and credibility of the other side. Life, death and love are the eternal topics of humanity. In this film, these themes are tightly squeezed together. While strengthening the life and death proposition, it highlights the importance of family and love to life. In the reverse life experience, the most wonderful time is always very short, and the main content that people face in the longer life time is the day waiting for death. In general, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is not only a more successful commercial art film, but also a film that expands the type of creation, attracting through wonderful visual effects and fairytale plots. At the same time of the audience's attention, the film's care and serious thinking about life, family and love made the film a certain depth and serious meaning. Therefore, this film can be called David Finch's one of the most beautiful films.

Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/4922-the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button?language=en-US
Critic: AAA