 merrie says: He's a baby that looks like a failing man in his 80's with poor eyesight, brittle bones and wrinkled flesh. His mother dies giving birth and his father (Jason Flemyng) abandons him, fittingly, at an old-age home. A maternal black woman, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), who runs the place, takes him in and raises him in the one environment where he can pass unnoticed. He truly fits in among African-Americans and people old and forgotten by time. As a somewhat younger old man, he meets Daisy as a small girl (Elle Fanning) visiting an ancient relative. Their friendship will last both of their lifetimes -- although ones moving in opposite directions -- and will evolve into romance and passionate love. Much keeps them apart though as Daisy pursues a career in ballet [...] The job on a tug boat with its hard-drinking pilot (Jared Harris) takes him to Russia and an affair with a British spy's wife (Tilda Swinton) and then into naval action in World War II. . . . After the war, Daisy's career takes off. Also she can't quite make up her mind about involvement with a man growing younger each year. But when commitment comes, contentment, brief though it may be, ensues. Benjamin's story is preceded by Daisy's recollection of a watch maker (Elias Koteas), who having lost his beloved son in World War I made a clock for the New Orleans train station that ran backwards so that time might move the same way and his boy would come back to him. Thus, narratively and thematically, the film positions time-running-backward as part of man's enternal desire to cheat death and to clng to those closest to us. Pitt's Benjamin is a touching and poignant figure, a... I've already heard Oscar talk about the movie. I definitely plan to see Benjamin Button, as well as Valkyrie* and Australia*. I think the theatre* is the best for that type of film. |
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