The old woman's heavy breathing and broken voice told a religious allegory: a blind watchmaker was given a sacred job before the outbreak of the First World War, to make a large scale for the country. Bell. Then, the bell was not finished, and his only son went to the battlefield and left his youth there forever. The watchmaker sent his son to the family cemetery and continued to make the unique clock himself. When the big clock hangs in front of everyone, it silently walks in the opposite direction. The clockmaker's retrospective and nostalgia for his son's life...
The big clock walking in the opposite direction opened the prelude to a strange journey. The protagonist is Benjamin Button, a man who goes against the tide of time. When he was born, he was like an old man in his 70s or 80s, suffering from geriatric disease all over his body. Because of his birth, his dear mother died, so he was abandoned and adopted again, and he was adopted by an amazing black woman. As he grew up, he became younger and more handsome, and his life was still heading towards the end of old age.
This is a touching play. The protagonist has suffered setbacks from the day he was born, but he survived in New Orleans with his courage, hard work, and kindness, and has his own rich life.
The film is David Fincher's latest near-perfect work, with fantastic actress Cate Blanchett and handsome British out-of-print export Brad Pitt making a film full of fantasy deeply rooted; The ingenious skills of makeup artists allow men and women to travel freely in the time tunnel, especially the beauty of Cate Blanchett's Lacey when she first appeared in front of Benjamin as an adult. , Angel's beauty is dazzling, I can't believe that the actress who was born in 1969 can be so beautiful; the film's great place also has rigorous rhythm and logic, which makes the seemingly absurd story into a real interesting story; nostalgia The tones, the soothing music, all the details won't make you say no.
I like this movie very much, not only because of the extraordinary love brought by the birth of Benjamin Button in the movie, I also saw God in the movie. If I had to sum up the idea of the film in one sentence, I would say "If a door in your life closes, God will open a window for you".
From that religious allegorical beginning in the movie, God has been absent countless times. The freak Benjamin who almost died saved his life because of the presence of the police, was abandoned and then adopted again; Lacey separated from Benjamin because of dancing, and the loss of dancing led to their marriage... There are countless examples of this.
And finally, when Benjamin closed his immature eyes, the absent God floated out of sleep. He is David Fincher, the talented director who looked down on the world with the eyes of God and created the legend of Benjamin Button with the lens. He controls the occurrence of events, preaching the faith of religion and the beauty of kindness.
It's a pity that there are always some small flaws in the almost perfect movie. For example: Benjamin Button's daughter's emotional transformation after knowing that Benjamin Button is her own father is not handled carefully enough, the symbolism of the big clock is not played more thoroughly, similar to the beginning of "Titanic" is a bit vulgar, Benjamin Cries at birth shouldn't be so slender...even so, these don't affect the overall aesthetic of the film.
This is the best movie I've seen in two years, and the one that moved me the most since "King Kong". The moment Benjamin closed his eyes, I saw the end of a century and a cruel carving knife hidden behind the goodness of God.
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