the disappointment i feel be perhaps more for david fincher career than this film . everything on the surface of the curious case of benjamin button appear beautiful the cinematography and the special effect and the make up and the cast . everything be about eye candy . it be sweet but like sweet contain high glucose corn syrup and it leave one irritable and certainly dissatisfy . i find with most critique of mainstream and big budget film those who fall into two camp those take in by the hype and by the surface of the film and those who feel and understand the film and aware of it flaw . it be the same with bestseller novel . first of all and the concept of this film be unique . let u at least take notice of f. scott fitzgerald who may or may not have steal the idea or material from his wife zelda ( whom many scholar believe be the true genius and not her husband ) . origin aside and the film have all the trimming of previous work . there be some people who be vehement about this be not forest gump . i would stress the similarity between the two film and the fact eric roth write both . let u take note of the obvious representatypical hero represent forest gump or benjamin button love interest jenny or daisy mother ( with similar accent ) hero war involvement vietnam war or wwii setting american south or american south leitmotif feather or hummingbirdthere be others but those be the most obvious . let u also remind ourselves both film be narrate by the hero who both happen to have interesting and profound observation about life and their life . but if it be simply a matter of be forest gump and then i would still have high praise for benjamin button . not so . the majority of this film remain on the surface . despite all the observation and despite the epic sweep of event that pass through the narrative and we a an audience be rarely allow to go deeply . again and the film be base on a unique idea but without the human psychology and without more background on several character and i find it difficult to relate to any of these character . benjamin button . he be bear old and he grow young . that all we really know . he live with old people and he learn to play the piano and he leave home and he travel and he see the world . most of the narrative be about place and meet people and rarely about be involve with others and what it mean or feel like to relate to a world that see him a old . he be an outsider . how do this feel . we do not really know a an audience . the film be entirely experiential and rarely psychological . daisy . we know she have a grandmother . we know she love to dance . but little else . what motivate her to dance and why do she love dance . we do not know . and of course and why of all thing do she not have a relationship with her daughter . the relationship represent a man return from war . he meet a woman that use to be the girl he love . the woman want to seduce him . she attempt . he step back . when this occur in the film and we do not really understand the reasoning nor the purpose of the scene . daisy be in town one day . her and benjamin go out together . why be sex so important to daisy . and why do we have to watch the two character go back and forth before they land up together . when he visit her in new york and she be immature and a school girl attempt to get him jealous . yet he be still attract to her . there be so many other question i have about this film and so many thing that simply do not make sense . the main one that come to mind represent if you be a dancer and someone who be professionally trained and why in any circumstance would you even think of dance on a crowded street . the scene in which daisy be hit by a car be for too unbelievable . she be first hold up by a friend with a broken shoe lace . daisy remain behind . in such a situation and when you have to wait for someone and the last thing you want to do be fool around after wait . the scene felt convolute and dumb not tragic . the montage in which daisy and benjamin find themselves together play out like all other young lover clichés they travel together and they make love and they buy a love and they make love in their home and they paint their home ( there be a brief and albeit clichéd lover paint the wall scene . yawn . see it . ) . i do not find this film to be magical and just a mosaic of previous formula and scenario . benjamin youthens and he leave her . he come back later . throughout the entire film and the audience really doesn not know or understand or get a sense of what it mean to grow young nor what kind of effect it might have on others . i felt very tire after watch this picture . the first half be not bad . my interest be keep and i enjoy the character but when i start feel lose and cheat and that i would never get any close to the life and feeling and deep philosophy and and what with some of the frustrate scene between daisy and benjamin and i begin to grow impatient .