"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008)

"Melhor Direcção Artística", "Melhor Caracterização" e "Melhores Efeitos Visuais" foram os Óscares arrecadados por este enternecedor e original filme de David Fincher com Brad Pitt e Cate Blanchett nos papéis principais (com excelentes desempenhos). Conta a história de Benjamim Button, cuja ordem temporal de existência é contrária ao normal, ou seja, rejuvenesce em vez de envelhecer, com uma história de amor entre duas "almas gémeas desencontradas no tempo". Uma obra extraordinária, sem dúvida.

Ricardo Tomaz Alves




Storyline

On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives...