The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
DVD - 2009
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival. He does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by Thomas Button, his biological father, after Benjamin's biological mother dies in childbirth, Benjamin is raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors' home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when they finally match up in age. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read.
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Publisher:
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2009]
Edition:
Widescreen version
ISBN:
9781415748619
1415748616
1415748616
Branch Call Number:
DVD DRAMA
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (DVD) (165 min.) :,sound, color ;,4 3/4 in
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reginator_22
Jan 25, 2018
Benjamin Button: You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could swear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
Benjamin Button: My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While everyone else was agin', I was gettin' younger... all alone.
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Add a CommentI love the creativity and imagination of this story's premise. Granted, there are a few major unanswered questions and convenient coincidences, but all in all I really liked this movie. Sometimes it's nice to follow the imagination far outside the realm of established beliefs and understanding. Often morsels of wisdom and inspiration can be found on these excursions if one is sufficiently aware. This film is one such exploration.
A very good movie, story & acting. I really liked it.
OMG this movie was long. And you have to wait, like, two hours before Brad Pitt becomes good looking. He is hella creepy when's like an old man baby. It's, like, some uncanny valley stuff, you know? Kinda based on a Fizgerald story, the movie turns this into an awkward, sappy, unwieldy epic, encompassing World War (and maybe II) and Katrina. Unsurprisingly, the screenwriter also did "Forest Gump." It's not quite that sentimental, but it's close. Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, and Jared Harris provide a few bright spots in this slog of a movie. Maybe David Fincher's worst movie, despite the technical wizardry.
The movie felt much longer. The storyline dragged. The soundtrack was repetition, same tones over and over again.
Excellent movei. I loved it
Directed by David Fincher in 2008 loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this fantasy-romance delves into a strange story of a man who ages in reverse.
Superb makeups and excellent visual effects create a magical fantasy you could hardly believe.
You will wonder how the director shows the protagonist age in reverse while you make sense of the philosophical conundrums and emotional paradoxes of its protagonist’s condition in a spirit that owes more to Fitzgerald's weird narrative.
Amazing and amusing!
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I'm impressed that they were able to take a pretty short work of fiction and turn it into an eternally long movie, the movie itself is okay.
Interesting story! Great as well!
A baby born an old man ages younger throughout his life, following the lifelong romance he has with Daisy, Benjamin was raised in a nursing home for the elderly when his father left him there, abandoning him after seeing his son. The film revolves around Benjamin and his life, when he receives work in a tug boat, going to war meeting his father, and the death of the woman who raised him. This was a wonderful movie, there were some funny moments but overall I would classify this as a drama, the audience really gets to see the unusual struggles he faces.
- @Florence of the Teen Review Board of the Hamilton Public Library