Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

In saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It begins with a tale about a clock maker, that is perhaps my favorite part of the entire film. I wouldn't say it goes downhill from there, it was just a very poignant moment in the film that happened to be at the very beginning and touched me the most personally.

It was beautifully filmed and contains subtle performances from every member of the cast. The film is a fairy tale, which I quite liked. It convincingly carried a mixture of realism and surrealism. I'm a fan of the director's (Panic Room, aside), and he doesn't disappoint. The movie is everything the trailers promised; it just fills in knowable gaps. Its predictability is perhaps the one thing it doesn't have in its favor. And there is some fat in the first half of the movie that could have been cut out, were it not for the filmmakers' apparent fascination with the success of the CGI used to make Brad Pitt look like a tiny old person.