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Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008)

Release Date:

Thursday, December 25, 2008

MPAA Rating:

PG-13

Rating Reason:

For brief war violence, sexual content, language and smoking

Genre:

Drama, Fantasy

Starring:

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Tilda Swinton

Written By:

Eric Roth

Director:

David Fincher

Official Site:

Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008)

Synopsis:

"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards

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STUDIO SYNOPSIS

"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be.

SPIRITUAL POINT OF VIEW
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Existentialist theologian Soren Kierkegaard famously said, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” True enough! It is his word that appear in the movie trailer for this intriguing masterpiece. The film, however, makes clear that we can understand something of life by the people we meet along our life’s way. Director David Fincher puts it this way, “Benjamin is like a cue ball and all the people he collides with leave marks on him. That’s what a life is – a collection of these dents and scratches. They are what make him who he is and not anyone else.” And it is those dents and scratches that make each of us who we are as well. Here is a powerful truth portrayed with brilliance in a powerful film.

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