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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Given what I'd heard, I went into this expecting Forrest Gump 2 and, while that's a little harsh, there certainly are similarities.

Technically, it is - in every aspect - a marvel. However, it's not the meaningful of profound work that it holds itself up to be. If we take it as a story about age or time or how the macrocosm effects the microcosm, it's not successful.

The characters are just there while things happen around them. It's like watching a scene of someone driving a car in an older movie - sure the background is moving and the driver is rotating the wheel - but you still know that it's just a projection and that they're being jiggled about by a stage hand.

I realise I sound harsh here but I liked it fine and watched it as a love story set around someone with a condition, rather than a movie about larger themes.

I will say this though, the sequences with the clock make a really nice short film that deals with those themes in exactly the way that the film as a whole does not.