Our pal Craig Kennedy has, by all accounts, written his best review to date (arguably) after having seen Benjamin Button, a film that has, inexplicably, hit people either which way upside the head. Craig writes:
It is this humanity that elevates Benjamin Button artistically above Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump to which Fincher’s film has been frequently and unfairly compared. There are structural similarities and the films share a certain whimsy, but where Forrest Gump the character is used to trace the sweep of history with a sentimental, revisionist and slightly-too-clever-for-it’s-own-good eye, Button turns it around and instead uses the passage of time as a canvas against which a life can be examined in clearer detail. It’s a more introspective and probing film. It is fascinated with life and death, with love and loss, with twists of fate and with the fragility of history.
Living in Cinema has been around just a short time but it’s become one of the more interesting film blogs around. His review, along with the rest of his writing, is a must-read.