i can not see why others rate this film so highly . maybe because people be so used to see visual trash from hollywood these day and when they get visual trash with some good acting and they call it a masterpiece . benjamin button be a very well pace and visually affecting movie . but it be one that leave you feel hollow . the feel for the character due to the skill of the actor and but you be give no understand for their motivation . why do the female lead desire so much to be a dancer . where be benjamins conflict about leave his family . layer that with the oh so obvious feeling that this be do before ( and good ) with forrest gump and you feel like this be a rehash of the same idea . now throw in cliché after cliché ( crazy sea captain and dancer strike down ridiculously in her prime and lover buy a love nest and paint the wall . ) and you end up feel like you have go on a ride and but it do not make you feel any differently than when you get on . you can not identify or understand what have happen and so why be it important . be we all so gullible these day that any movie with some enhanced visuals and good act get call a masterpiece .