A Beautiful Movie: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

F Scott Fitzgerald wrote the incredible story that became the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Its focus is on matters of the heart, difficulties, and misfortune. It is a crisscrossing story that has a heartrending affect on the viewer. The man, Benjamin is born in the beginning of the 1900's. For some reason at his birth he is 80 something years old. He is a portly, decrepit old man who gets younger as the movie goes on.

Its good luck for Benjamin that he is found by Queenie, played by Tarajii Henson, at her boarding home's doorstep. Naturally he is thought to have insurmountable birth defects, so he is abandoned there when he is born. Queenie is in charge of the senior home, and Benjamin's issues and different color from her own don't slow her down from adopting him. The fact that she will never have her own children must surely have weighed on this decision. Benjamin is living as an old man with the other old people at the home. The day he he happens to meet Little Daisy is the beginning of a long,complicated love story. Daisy is played later all grown up by Cate Blanchett.

The discordant aging of Benjamin and Daisy make for a complicated and nearly unsustainable love connection. David Fincher (director of Seven and Fight Club) manages to untangle the love tale with his well done directing. The screenwriter, who also wrote Forrest Gump and Munich is Eric Roth. How they made Pitt and Blanchett become so realistically older and younger is a feat! The cinematography alone was enough to astound. How they manage to take 21st century events and mix them up with 20th century flashbacks is very nicely done. They were right on target with the Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Directing, and Picture.

Benjamin Button has been put out on DVD. There are options available.The two disc special edition that The Criterion Collection has released is a must have for those who are totally into film. The Criterion Collection has a reputation for desiring films that are considered to be classic and contemporary. You can't deny the awesome quality of the DVD. It also has some very nice other obvious features within its packaging.

Although the double DVD is incredibly packed with goodies, you can also get a single disc packaged with some nice features of its own. There is always the hi definition option in crystal clear Blu-Ray. This movie is so collectible that it doesn't matter what format you get it in, just get it!