The minute at the end about "some people" really made my eyes shine. Awakening: It turns out that in addition to Daisy who has no relationship with Button, there are these people in the film. Many people think that this movie is about the historical facts of life. Recall, the remorseful father, the fraternity adoptive mother, the dreamless lady spy, the captain who died in battle, which of these people guided Button's different life? Which one is affected by Button's extraordinary life experience? To put it harshly, they are nothing but the pale filling of the long plot beyond that love story.
The 23-year-old Button witnessed the death of his crew in the gunfire of the war. He was only the lucky one who returned to his hometown after the war. Abandoning his father, who visited Button several times in the first half of his life and told the family legend, Button seems to be just a listener who buried him after his father died. After leaving the pregnant Daisy, she reappeared as a young man more than a decade later. During this period, she seemed to see the helplessness of women getting old. Where did Button go? Benjamin Button, trembling from his wheelchair at the age of seven, turned into a child with amnesia in time. Where is the inner variation of life against the current? I really don't have a discerning eye here.
David Fincher spent such a huge space trying to sculpt the relationship between Button and Daisy, rather than the immortal love between Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett that is not obstructed by supernatural external forces. In the end, he used a seemingly brilliant embellishment at the end to remind the audience not to forget another voter who is very important to the theme. But I’m sorry, this move did not change my opinion, that is, the subject of this movie is limited to Benjamin Button’s biological miracles and love miracles.
"The front is graceful and miscellaneous, the middle is sweet and sensational, and the end is rushed." This excerpt from a commentary made me cheer up. However, these so-called "shortcomings" can still make the reviewer praise the film, which is really strange to me.
I have no intention to deny everything about this movie with the above words, but in my opinion it is really not as praiseworthy as it is. Next, I would like to say something else in the name of the other two movies.
One is naturally "Forrest Gump". In my opinion, this is also an over-acclaimed movie, but it is undoubtedly more meaningful than "The Wonder".
Just want to compare, the two movies are very similar in some character settings. The lieutenant in "Forrest" and the captain in "The Wonder" are both the finishing touches. The act of the lieutenant with his legs amputated is really breathtaking, and after the death of the captain full of tattoos, I will completely Forget about this character. The mother is undoubtedly the soul figure of "Forrest", and in "The Wonder", after the 17-year-old Button enters the world alone, the black adoptive mother becomes a dispensable figure. Jenny, who was childhood sweetheart with Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump, didn't take up too much space in the film, but he always said "Run! Forrest! Run!" as a child. In order to make Daisy the whole story, it is not very convincing to arrange for the naive and stubborn Button to transcend the age limit and "love at first sight". So that in the end, the image of her holding a newborn Button, who was still very old, made me hard to be moved.
I don't remember any historical events in "The Wonder", and the war seems to be a dispensable occurrence. Under Fincher's guide tube, the slow-motion backwards of the warrior's charge may be trying to make people feel embarrassed, but it seems inferior to the tropical thunder and a fool who shuttles between them.
The second is Fincher's last work "The Zodiac" that has seen the edge of transformation. Compared with the fairy tale "Wonderful Things", few people seem to mention its low-key and calmness. Probably its unanswered ending made many people disappointed.
Both are running-book-style movies, and this description does not have a derogatory meaning. I remember that the deepening and shedding of layers under the calm appearance of "Zodiac" always kept me looking forward to it, and the unspecified ending did not destroy the previous accumulation, but rather intriguing. There are two unusual plot settings in the film, which can be called climaxes. One time, Robert Downey, who played the role of a tabloid reporter, got the chance to go to the crime scene to confront the killer. After the audience's tension soared, the film stopped abruptly on the way Downey went. It was a bit anti-climax, but it was also in line with Fincher. Unique style. At the end of the film, Jake Gyllenhaal, who was still interested in the Zodiac case, went to the projectionist’s cabin, where Fincher created a "fake orgasm" for us, which was unpleasant but also stunned.
On the other hand, "Wonderful Events", the viewing process for me is almost longer than the actual length of the film, and it will inevitably be procrastinated. Of course, Pitt has not shown his prime of life for a long time is also one of the reasons. It is said that Fitzgerald's original novel has no so-called climax at all, so it has stumped directors such as Ron Howard and Spike Jones. But David Fincher, who successfully directed the tube, failed to create a climax. The movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", it can be said that there is no climax at all.
In addition to the gentle narrative, it can be seen that Fincher does not forget to show his narrative skills. "The person struck by lightning seven times" adds to the film's interest and the sense of impermanence in life, which is understandable. However, the time and space coincidence of Daisy's car accident in Paris was deliberate, and I really don't know why it was necessary. On this point alone, he also lost to the hidden mystery of the "Zodiac".
In the end, I still refuted it with the "Unbelievable Vinci" described in "Watching Movies". For me, Fincher’s incredible belief lies in "Fight Club", in "Zodiac", and even in "The Seven Deadly Sins". "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" did let us see another David Fincher who tried to break through, but he didn't surpass it, so I don't know how to give such a high praise.
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