I have seen this film only because it has got an Oscar award this year for Cinematography or photography. What is so curious about this Benjamin?
Benjamin was born as an old man of about 67 years and slowly becomes young but from then onwards (in the film direction, I mean to say) he grows very fast to become a kid !! . Later to be an infant finally dies in the arms of his estranged wife. So this is really curious, and screenplay, direction, the beautiful heroine will keep up the pace to keep you with the story to the end of the film.
Not so much boring, in fact with a few turns and twists it actually keeps the audience interested to the end. Though you can very well say, it is not a masterpiece, not a memorable one and not even as thrilling as another Oscar winner ”Dark Night”. There is no thrill as such in “The curious case of Benjamin Button” and yet indeed it will arouse your curiosity.
You may probably watch the movie to the end because of the "sweet" attitude, dramatic expressions and a very healthy body with a shining face of a "ballerina" played by an actress called Cate Blanchet. She has a glow on her face and suits the role of ballerina who can bend and forward like bird in the sky an dance with sweeping steps, gyrates like a rubber doll.
She was becoming popular and successful ballerina in theaters in New York by the time our hero’s old age period since birth was gone and developed in to a 30 year old young man with a powerful body. The ballerina now becoming popular aged normally, since childhood, she became a girl and now a young lady with a promising career, because of her dance practice she had a very healthy body and a shining face because of her discipline.
Now both are (Hero Benjamin and Heroine ballerina dancer Daisy) at cross roads of their respective ages, cross roads of their respective careers; one ageing backwards becoming younger by day and another ageing forwards normally becoming older by day.
When they met in New York theatre she notices the change in him, whom she thought of as an old man. She consoles herself by saying "You and I are almost of same age" she says "I am now 26 and you are 30, we are almost of same age”. She wanted sex with him but he declines. His love for her was just too much. He wants to marry her. But she refuses. Even with a broken leg, in the hospital she tells him" though we are childhood friends, we are no more children”.
But somehow she later decides to marry him and comes to meet him in his city and marries him, gives birth to a baby girl. But the Hero gets nervous, he is growing younger everyday and along with this his maturity, his ability to take responsibility also comes down.
He sells his fathers house buys a new flat and sells his boat etc., to put money in the bank for his new born child and then runs away from home. Why? God knows why? Because director could not justify this incident or behaviour of the hero of the story, that is Benjamin.
In any case what we understand is that there is something unchanged, unborn in all of us. When someone tells us that we are now 50 years of age, yes, we realize we are 50 years of age. It is because, in everyone, there is something which does not grow old at all. We are the same… that is something inside us is same throughout our life. This Benjamin Button is not for an ordinary cinema audience who may want some thrill, or some song and dance.