Brad Pitt only improves with age in both his acting and his looks, as he gets younger and younger in this movie. Cate Blanchett improves with age as well, but I wonder if her looking like she had too much makeup on was done on purpose to show how vain women really are about getting older? With Brad de-aging thanks to CGI, couldn't they have aged Cate the same way? Either way, beautifully told and beautifully done.
Based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man who loses his son in WWI designs a clock for a local train station that runs backwards - and in sync to Benjamin's life. Much like the seats at the theater, I think. They re-did our local theater at the mall, including stadium seating. Long overdue in my opinion, but what happened to those well worn seats with protruding springs? They were at the smaller theater we saw this almost three hour movie in, and I had that seat that was trying to de-age too. My bad seat made the movie seem longer than it really was, but like a really good novel that follows a person's life from beginning to end, I almost didn't mind. I was as lost in this movie as I am in a good book.
Verdict? Not nauseous at all. In fact, I felt pretty good when it was done.
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