The curious case of Benjamin Button

There are not many words to describe this film, because people is speechless with the masterpiece, but also a good work needs a lot of word to be explained.

The plot is touching, simple and complicated at the same time because is just a film about a life, but this life is so different at any other you may know. David Fincher wants to draw our attention in all the situations that are the life of this man who goes at the other way, because is the way to understand the film.

David Fincher, the director, is the type of name that maybe it’s not very known but he has a lot of films, which talks for him, like “Zodiac”, “Fight Club”, “The Game”, “Seven”, just to say some of them. These films help us to make an idea about what we are going to see: methodical, detailed characters and original work, also if it’s an adaptation. The screenwriter who made that work is Erin Roth as well-known as the director. Again the films talk about him: “The Good Shepherd”, “Munich”, “Ali”, “The Insider”, “Forrest Gump”, and a big etcetera.

The work in front of the cameras has to be mentioned. Brad Pitt was a men that creates excitement in the women, but I didn’t like it too many when I was young. He wasn’t the tipe of men that I put my eyes on and I thought that his work was bad and that he was in films just for his face. Well, the maturity feels fine to everybody and Brad Pitt is not an exception of that. His career has risen up (in my opinion from “Twelve Monkeys”), and now he has the appreciation of everybody. Different is the career of Cate Blanchett who hasn’t a constant progress, she has ups and downs. Sometimes she works really good and in very good films, but other time you see her in films that you can’t explain to yourself how she could accept this role. This film is definitely an up point in her career.

There is not too much to say. Very good audiovisual effects in the same way as the make-up, a setting well worked in the period time of the film, enviable stages (like the daybreak) and many other details that compose the film, and give a hope to people who likes go to cinema but not to see a Chihuahua as a main role. “The curious case of Benjamin Button” has a lot of possibilities in the Oscars.