Anyone see THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, and if so what is your take?
Nominated for 97 Oscars.
My review: (spoilers)
Attempts to be a Forrest Gump-Fried Green Tomatoes clone. Fails.
You know the premiss, Brad Pitt aka Benjy is born old and grows younger at the same rate one would age (year for year).
Born about 90, so when 7 years old that makes him physically 83. A picnic is held, and there Benjy is enamored with the love of his life, 7 year old red haired blue eyed Daisy. Cut to other scenes....
After plodding thru an hour of mostly boring side scenes including Benjy working on a tugboat, complete with Brad Pitt doing a Southern retard accent worse then Tom Hanks (yes, it's possible), finally Benjy and Daisy are about the same age. He had been pining for her ever since that age 7 encounter. They finally get together when he is about 49, she 43. They frolic day and night for a couple years. Finally she gets pregnant, a year later they have a beautiful baby girl. When the girl hits one year old, Pitt says he is leaving. Bub bye. No emotion, nothing. "I'm leaving". "Why" Daisy asks!!??
"Because i dont want her to see me get young."
Oh okay, even tho you could spend about 20 more years with her, certainly parent her thru childhood, as it will be about 20 more years before you age backwards to about 25 years old, you want to abandon your baby and wife now? Real loving. He leaves, setting out for some around the world adventure which in Brad Pittspeak means he goes to Nepal and India and hangs out with the retreat monk types.
Benjy has to come back when the girl is 12, after wife/mom Daisy has remarried and Benjy an adulterous night with her. Who wrote this crap, Anjie Joline? Oh and the baby girl never was told Benjy was her father until she was about 45 yrs old sitting at her Mom Daisys deathbed. Real openess.
It was a stinker. Average at best, that's being kind.
