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REEL REVIEWS

Arts & Entertainment

If you liked Forrest Gump, youll love Benjamin Button

5 OUT OF 5 STARS
KATIE BRADFORD
KOURIER-STANDARD

Everyone loves the holidays, but I personally enjoy them because I get to watch

all of the movies that are up for awards. These films, often held by studios until the holidays until awards season, are usually the cream of the crop. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, directed

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by David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac), is stirring up a great deal of Oscar buzz and has already been nominated for five Golden Globes. These nominations are deserved, and I wouldnt be surprised if the film walked away with a few gold statuettes before springtime. Its a very peculiar film. I say this not in a negative way; it is delightfully strange. The entire time, however, it also feels somewhat familiar. It is comfortable and warm, and I couldnt quite put my finger on it. I kept thinking I feel like I felt when I first saw Forrest Gump. This mans life, which we watch from beginning to end, is so captivating, whimsical, lovely, and tragic. The film was three hours long, and when the credits rolled I breathed a sigh: did it have to be over? It turns out my Forrest G u m p i n s t i n c t w a s n t unfounded.

The film is written by Eric Roth (Munich), the artful story teller who brought us Gump, and every one of his beloved lines. Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what youre gonna get. While Benjamin isnt slow, and doesnt spout a million southern sayings, the film does follow the same thread. You never know whats comin for ya characters constantly chime. The film is in no way a carbon copy of Gump; it is more its brother. It is a perfect compliment to it, and a testament to Roths talent as a storyteller and writer. The film also harkens some of the great American novels of the 1930s. If your mind goes straight to Gatsby, youre bang on. Roths script is based off of a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Benjamin is a boy born old, his father so horrified by the wrinkled, deformed baby his wife delivers that

he leaves the child on the doorstep of an old folks home, run by a young black woman named Queenie (Taraji P. Henson). She raises the boy as her own, thinking that his life will soon end. Instead, his health gradually improves, and he finally figures out that he isnt getting older, but getting younger. When he meets a young girl named Daisy, he spends his life writing her letters from his many travels, and visiting her from time to time. Their love is what keeps him going, as his mind becomes older and his body becomes younger, seemingly robbing him of the many experiences we take for granted. The acting in this film is phenomenal. Brad Pitt spends the majority of the film laden with prosthetics and makeup to make him look older, and he still manages to deliver an unparalleled performance. You are watching

KATIE BRADFORD Benjamin, not Brad Pitt. Although, as he gets younger the heartthrob Pitt starts to shine through, it is more breathtaking than distracting. Cate Blanchett is stunning as the older Daisy, and also ages gracefully. The film is largely about mortality, and while that may seem a depressing topic for many, it is one of the most uplifting and inspiring films Ive seen in a very long time. In fact, Im off to see it again: I hope you will too.

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