Behind the Buttons...

Behind The Buttons, Lie More buttons.

By: Nemo Zaragoza

What would you think if a baby was left on your doorstep and you almost stepped on it, not knowing it was there? As you quickly uncover the baby’s face you see that its all raggedy and old looking, what would you do? Well for Queenie, played by Taraji P. Henson, that baby was a blessing, she didn’t care if it was ugly or not, she took him in and gave him the chance of life, she gave Benjamin, the chance his father didn’t. So what I would have to say is that this movie was alright.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was directed by David Fincher, with main roles by Brad Pitt as Benjamin’s young version, also with Tom Everett being Benjamin from 1935-1937, Robert Towers being Benjamin from 1932-1934. Then we have Daisy played by Cate Blanchett, Queenie, Taraji P. Henson, and these are just a few of the main characters. It was made in 2008, and it has a rating of PG-13. Well, this movie is about Benjamin Button, a baby that was abandoned on the doorsteps of a senior home, he was born at the end of WWI, and the reason he was abandoned was because when Benjamin was born, he aged backwards, but his father didn’t know so he just saw a monster, and abandoned him on a doorstep.

In this movie, it starts with a mother and daughter, the mother is dying and she tells her daughter to read a journal that she had in her suitcase, this told the story of Benjamin Button, a man that aged backwards. So now, Benjamin is curious about the world so he leaves home and travels abroad trying to see the world, and ends up fighting for a brief time in WWII.

Something that was interesting and almost made me cry was the fact of how Benjamin had to give everything up because he aged backwards, he would be a kid when he would die and he told his wife that she wouldn’t be able to raise their child and Benjamin, so he left her and the child, and left them with a substantial amount of money so they could live off of the money he left them, but when the real daughter is reading the journal to her mother she see’s postcards, and they were all for her, they were all dated on her birthday, and that moment touched me because I just knew he ached to be with here but he knew he couldn’t.

Overall this movie is pretty good, but if you think about it really, you are just watching a movie about a man that retells his life story, the only interesting part is that he aged backwards, but still I would give this movie a 3/5, so I would say that almost anyone should watch this movie but if you don’t want the movie ruined just don’t think about it at the end.