The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Now when I first saw the trailers for this movie I thought to myself, this is one of the movies that will win awards. Sure enough, last week the Golden Globe nominees came out and Benjamin Button was nominated for five awards including best film. So I decided,even though at the time the film looked kinda weird, to go check this one out. I wasn't disappointed. The story is a very interesting one. A baby is born an old man and he grows younger with age. The fun thing about this plot is you get to see what he went through in terms of how people treated him. The sad part is that Benjamin sees many people that were close to him get older and eventually die. The movie is set at the end of World War 1 and ends during World War 2. This is strictly a romance drama not an action movie. There is one scene where Benjamin is on a ship that is in combat with a Japanese submarine. It was hard to find the message in this film but after I though about it I realized there was several times in the movie where people said that you never know what will happen to you the next day so live your life while you can. The thing is, the message is for the most part empty because in no way does the film say how to live your life in a good way. Some might come out of the movie and think that the message means that they should do anything and everything they want because they might not have the chance the next day. On the other hand, the acting was great and the make-up was amazing. The way they made everyone look older, and in Benjamin's case younger, was out standing. For example, Daisy(Benjamin's love interest) is a ten year old girl in the beginning and an eighty year old woman in the end and throughout the movie you could tell she was getting older and older. The same can be seen with Benjamin except he grow younger and younger until he is only a baby. This movie was definitely one my top five list for best movies of this year. 9 out of 10.