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2008-12-23

by John Esther

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

Summary

Main character goes back in time.

Article

Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920s short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button chronicles, or de-chronicles, the life and, barely, the times of the titular character, a male who was born in his eighties and grew younger -- so young he disappeared into his mother’s womb before becoming spermatozoa.

Okay I wish director David Fincher (Fight Club; Panic Room; Zodiac) would have had the artistic sensitivity to take the narrative that far -- not even close. After a 20th century lifetime, Benjamin vanishes with about as much trace as Fincher gives to the grand events Benjamin lived. No womb and little war.

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