Behind The Drape

two things that i took away from this movie:

1. great idea for a movie
2. what a completely sad and depressing story

i thought the idea for Benjamin Button was a great plot, great idea, great premise for a movie. however, it ended up being the saddest and most depressing movie i’ve ever seen in my life. i’m very glad now that i didn’t pay $9.00 to go see this in the theater to feel like my dog has just died – again. 

Callie really wanted to go see this one in the theater and i’m so glad we got it on Netflix. it took us two days to watch it because we both fell asleep in the middle of it. which means it was either late at night when we were watching it or it got real slow in the middle. i’m thinking it was slow.

Brad Pitt plays Benjamin Button – a boy who was born as an 80 year old man and grows younger looking as he grows older in age. i was intrigued by this movie more because i wanted to see how someone could portray a man growing up as he was growing younger. really interesting idea. Cate Blanchett is also in this movie and plays Button’s primary love interest, Daisy. i say “primary” because Button has many interests in the movie. 

the movie begins with Daisy on her deathbed in a hospital in New Orleans. her daughter is there with her and Daisy asks for her daughter to begin reading to her from Benjamin Button’s journal – basically, the story of his life. as she reads, Button becomes the narrator and the movie takes over. 

the hospital scenes were really unnecessary in my book. the only tie-in to the movie was Daisy. the movie could have been just as good (if not a little better) if it had just been narrated by Button. not read by a woman to her dying mother. 

overall, i’ve got to give the movie only 3 stars. to me, it just didn’t live up to the hype. it was a great idea for a movie, and the makeup and everything it took to make Brad Pitt into the various stages of life for Benjamin Button was incredible, but the utterly depressing and sad ending and the unneccesary hospital scenes ruined it for me. this is a movie that i’m glad i saw once, but have no desire to see again.

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