That’s a really lovely sentiment (aside from using graph paper), but yes, love and death are intertwined as they give each other meaning. However, Fincher says that unlike Brad Pitt, he didn’t see Benjamin Button as a love story. He saw it as a “death story”, and not a tale of co-dependency. And at the end of the documentary, he says (half-jokingly), “I don’t want to see anybody together. I want to see everybody as unhappy as me. Everybody in this movie dies. That’s how I was able to stomach the rest of it.” Cate Blanchett describes Fincher as a cynic, and although I’ve never met him, as I’ve stated before, I don’t think his work is purely cynical. That being said, I think the love story in Benjamin Button is one of the most powerful yet completely disingenuous I’ve ever seen