It's been a long time since I have watched a nice film that took 3 hours to watch. It's called The curious case of Benjamin Button. 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. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, "Benjamin Button," is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
I really admire the extraordinary imaginative mind of the director, who can come out with such a good plot. It makes me ponder about life values, what we should really care about and do, although very fast I'm gonna drown in my usual hectic working lifestyle again. The show is not boring, it's really entertaining and the casts are simply fabulous. It's definitely a time well-spent.
If given such a chance to live life backwards, I wonder what will happen. Maybe we get to experience life more, and by the time we are back to young adults or teenagers, we will get to do things in a more mature way, see things in a different perspective, and perhaps more energy to get things done.
Life can be so amazing, depending on how you view it. At the end of the road, whether it's a life journey well lived, really is up to you to decifer.
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