This may be the best Brad Pitt movie I have ever seen.
The movie is based on the 1920's book by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
It runs two hours and forty-five minutes, so check your
bladder before you sit down.
The synopsis of the movie is two people in love...but
the girl starts out young and grows old...while the man
is born old and grows younger with each day. Naturally
they finally get together in mid-life when they are almost
the same age. It is a love story, BUT it is a losing situation.
Most of the movie is a flashback from a hospital in New
Orleans during hurricane Katrina. The woman is finally on
her death bed and telling the story to her daughter.
Needless to say, the daughter has been fathered by
the man during that steamy mid-life period. Brad Pitt plays
the part of the man,..and the make-up and special effects
during the early years when he is elderly are really
something. Cate Blanchett plays the love of his lifetime,..
but there is a time when Tilda Swinton comes across young
(old) Benjamin. Swinton is as plan-jane looking as homemade
soap, but she is an excellent actress. The setting of the
movie takes us from 1918 as World War I is coming to an
end, right up to Hurricane Katrina. The movie is out on DVD
for those that want to rent it,..But I bought it and do not
regret it..
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