There are genres like Drama, Fantasy, and Mystery etc but till date no one has been able to attribute a right genre to the movies like “The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons”.
Fantasy is what this movie is called. But Fantasies are not as detailed as this one.
This is what I would call a “Concept Movie”. Fitzgerald thought of a simple concept that “What would happen if the human life was to move reverse – from old to getting young?” Had the concept been that we live in a world where everyone lives a reverse life – I would have definitely agreed to put this movie under the genre “Fantasy”. It would have been pretty easy to make a fantasy out of it.
But the movie is based on a person who is born old and then goes on to become younger with time – Benjamin Buttons. The detail into which the movie goes is touching and heart rendering at times.
When one grows younger and discovers the gift of good health, he enjoys it more than he would have done otherwise. On the same time it is much more painful to see your loved ones moving in the other direction. The pain aggravates when you discover that you are going to meet your kid halfway as a playmate rather than a father. What do you do? Do you raise the kid?
Think of the dear ones who have to see you move from a young man to a kid and then to a toddler when you loose your words and finally as an infant. Seeing a old man reuniting with the Almighty is pretty easy but happening this to an infant was heart rendering. Being a father myself to a 55 days old kid, it touched me more than I think it would do to may others.
Though I would have enjoyed the lighter part of it too (had it been included) – retiring at the peak of your health and touching the height of your career when you can actually enjoy it most. But the mood and tone of the movie did not allow taking it that path.
Hats off to the writer of the movie who could go into such details and also the director who did a real justice to the concept.
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