Botox movie

The strange case of Benjamin Button is...boring. No, I don't think it's a masterpiece at all. The idea of the man born old and aging backwards was an interesting premise but the film doesn't deliver. The actors do their best but all those special effects and heavy makeup that disrupt time, and distort flesh and bodies, actually make the film as expressionless as a lifted face. It was often pointless and obvious.

Besides there was something I didn't like at all but I can't really put my finger on it. I have yet to read Fitzgerald 's short story but I think that David Fincher indulged in a soppy fantasy fable, a sentimental movie borrowing from too many genres at once, but eventually he missed the true tragedy that lies in living à rebours.

I found much more poignant the story of the girl suffering from the Merlin syndrome that Dan Simmons told in his Hyperion Cantos. I even cried reading it.

Slumdog Millionaire and Milk are next on my to-see list.