A scene from the movie

There has been couple of newspaper giving extensive details about the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” starring Brad Pitt and directed by acclaimed filmmaker David Fincher. There has been a departure of sorts for the filmmaker after the restrained Zodiac. His work seems to be on the machinations of humans and the relationships they share. He has also been working on things like how the world would have been at set point in the past. How do these people interact?

Over the years there have been several brought on board to write this beautiful movie. One of them is Robin Swicord. But Fincher felt that he needed something more after he read the 9000 worded book by F. Scott Fitzgerald. David Fincher said this to New York Times “When I read the Robin Swicord draft, I thought, this is a love story. But when I read the Eric Roth draft, I thought, this is a love story, but it’s really about death, about the total frailty of humanity. He’s a character whose entire childhood is defined by the people that die around him and by how comfortable he gets with that. Imagine that you’re raised with a bunch of 85-year-olds. They’re not sweating the same things teenagers are. And that’s where he learns everything.”

There have been some really interesting ideas that had been passing around during the shoot for the film. I love Fincher for his detailing of his story. There is a lot of trust he places with the script especially for a story like this. The film revolves around a man who begins to age backwards and passes through some interesting phases in the World’s history. The film has used a lot of performance capture to make sure they get into the skin of Brad’s character. His aging is going to be one of the strongest points in the film. Brad who is known to be the most photographed man in the world. He is all set to bring a story that will surely resonate with a larger demography. If the film plays to the strength of the age of the character it will surely be a magnificent spectacle.

A scene from the film

Brad has been developing into an actor with such grace, that it almost feels like there is no end to his improvisations. The film begins with his characters interactions with Queenie, and then his tryst with a woman named Daisy played by the ethereal Cate Blanchett, it also have an affair with Elizabeth Abbot played by Tilda Swinton.

There were some interesting things told by the scriptwriter about the acceptance the movie might generate: “I’m hoping the movie gives people permission to kind of grieve together, in a good way. We’re living through the death of our parents and seeing our children get older and have their own lives and become adults. Yet I’m hoping that the movie will resonate with people who are younger, too, that it will speak somehow to a younger generation and let them see what aging is about, even though it may not be foremost on their minds.”

I think this is surely going to be something I would like to see in a Hollywood film and bring back the glory it has sort of lost this year.

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