new message to oscar reviews. This time something as nice as an epic drama of life.
title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
actor: brad pitt, Cate Blanchett, taraji P. Henson et al.
director: David Fincher
Company: Paramount Pictures / Warner Brothers.
length 166 min
years: 2008
country: united states
age: varying between 11 - 15 of the countries where it has been reviewed.
Reviewed version: Swedish cinema edition (sf cinema city, grove, 2009-01-16)
tagline: "Life Is not measured in minutes, But in moments."
Oscar nominations:
first best art direction
second best cinematography
third best costume design
4th best editing
5th best makeup
6th best sound
7th best original score
8th best visual effects
9th best adapted screenplay
10th Best Actor (brad pitt)
11th Best Supporting Actress (taraji P. Henson)
12th best director (David Fincher)
13th Best Picture
benjamin born the same week as World War I ends. it's a brilliant evening with a carnival atmosphere in town, but the joy is tempered for benjamins father when his wife dies in childbirth and his newborn son looks horribly deformed out. in a desperate moment he leaves the baby on the steps of a retirement home where the girl Queenie takes care of him. soon realize the residents of old people's home that benjamin is a miracle - he is aging backwards.
brad pitt is a remarkable actor. if he gets a good script to work with, as here, he is very, very good, but for every good role he does he makes three or four at halftime and routine. I absolutely can not complain about Pitt in this film, nor on his motskådespelerska, the always wonderful Cate Blanchett. even the supporting roles are well played with taraji P. Henson portraits of Queenie as the foremost example. need only mention the man who plays Queenies love interest, Tizzy. attempts to say his name ten times fast: mahershalallhashbaz ali.
I have already mentioned that the script is extremely well written. the most impressive thing about it is that it succeeds in taking a life, albeit an unusual one, spanning some of the most eventful years in history, yet not leave the audience on the nose by saying something about all historical events. Forrest Gump managed that feat, but otherwise I can not think of any other film in which one of those narrative not only feels contrived. Instead we get a story of an unusual man's fate in a rare time that most acts as a matching fund his adventures. love story between Pitt and Blanchett are very well constructed and very touching. is there something I can not stand, it is unrealistic and exaggerated love stories on film, but this success Pitt and Blanchett portray a credible ones. it is not the huge gestures we find in many similar films, but the story of two people who repeatedly find and lose each other. Again, I am reminded of Forrest Gump . there is little that one can sum up this movie with - a forrest rumps with not as much humor, but the more emotional depth.
upper hand is incredibly beautiful and well made. David Fincher has not done very many films before, but in his resume are found when the majority of cult movies, as Fight Club , seven and alienated III . Likewise, he made one of 2007's best films in zodiac . Fincher has his own style and it is also evident in this film. while his house changing and adapts to the script in a masterful way. this movie is a representation of what I will call for finchers "light" style - which recurs in the above-mentioned zodiac . His dark style, as is already in alienated III , became stilikonisk in the seven and was given its final shape with Fight Club . Benjamin Button is primarily an example of the social realism Fincher shown in recent years, but also mixes the fantastic elements that reminded me of movies that big fish or el Labirinto del fauno . Fincher to know and trust brad pitt, whose career got a major push with seven , is clear and Fincher also has good acting, directing in the second skådepspelarna. In short, incredible good.
I had heard many good things about this movie and consistently refused to even see trailers to not have it spoiled for me. and what movie it turned out to be! the watches in the nearly three hours but the hours were lost, I have no idea. This is movie magic at its best and a true heavyweight contestants for best film at the Oscars. see it!
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