The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Posted: December 26th, 2008, 4:42 am
I will certainly write more later when I am not so hungry and tired (we saw two flicks tonight - Gran Torino second), but the moment the film ended I knew I at least had to say this:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button might very well be the best film ever crafted. Visually it is the most stunning work of art of any medium I have ever experienced. The lensing of greats Akira Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick has finally been out done. This will be the defining moment of Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and David Fincher's careers. Every single scene might well have been painted on a canvas, with every character a color, so vivid and lifelike.
Few movies ever bring me to tears. Benjamin Button had me constantly facing down a broken heart.
While there may never be a movie more important than Citizen Kane, more artistic than 2001 or more human than Seven Samurai, cinema has finally been blessed with a film that truly defines the artform. As Beethoven's 5th was to piano, Michaelangelo's David was to sculpting and the Beatles' Rubber Soul was to rock and roll, so David Fincher's Benjamin Button is to cinema. Over the course of a century, film has been given a body, a heart and a brain. It has finally been given a soul.
If I never see another film for as long as I live I will die a happy man.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button might very well be the best film ever crafted. Visually it is the most stunning work of art of any medium I have ever experienced. The lensing of greats Akira Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick has finally been out done. This will be the defining moment of Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and David Fincher's careers. Every single scene might well have been painted on a canvas, with every character a color, so vivid and lifelike.
Few movies ever bring me to tears. Benjamin Button had me constantly facing down a broken heart.
While there may never be a movie more important than Citizen Kane, more artistic than 2001 or more human than Seven Samurai, cinema has finally been blessed with a film that truly defines the artform. As Beethoven's 5th was to piano, Michaelangelo's David was to sculpting and the Beatles' Rubber Soul was to rock and roll, so David Fincher's Benjamin Button is to cinema. Over the course of a century, film has been given a body, a heart and a brain. It has finally been given a soul.
If I never see another film for as long as I live I will die a happy man.