Benjamin Button

My!  What a curious case was that of Benjamin Button!  It truly was curious, interesting, and fascinating.  Overall, I thought the movie was simply beautiful.  It was beautifully shot and beautifully executed with a beautiful story.  However, I did have some major issues with the movie.

For one, I thought the special effects were done fantastically.  They were absolutely amazing… but I could still tell they were special effects, and that bothered me.

Secondly, when Cate Blanchett’s character is young, her voice is very strange.  I cannot explain it any further, you’ll simply have to see the movie for yourself to understand what I’m talking about.  But once you do see it, it will bother you too.

And finally, I was extremely bothered by the slowness of the movie.  There were some parts that moved faster and some that were action-packed, but as a whole, the movie moved rather slowly forward (or rather backward) in time.  

Which is why I believe it will win the Academy Award for Best Picture this year.  Last year, No Country for Old Men won.  Now, while that movie was intriguing, beautiful and somewhat strange, it was also incredibly slow-moving.  Benjamin Button seems to fit that ticket exactly.

It is a poignantly sad movie that shows the life of one man, backwards though it may be.  We grow with Benjamin, we live with him, and we love him, making it all the more harder to lose him.

A sad tale.  A beautiful tale.  A curious tale.  I advise you to catch the tale of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.