s work has been noted as dark. foreboding, chilly, gymi and Irreverent Th Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a striking Mom i in his filiooterapiiyay the illine of the project some makes sense, but the is a lush, romance bubbling with ma kash ment The movie is graceful. beautiful poetic, and yet oddly distant. The whole production feels gilded as Fincher made a deeply moving film out of a fairly terrible script. The most curious thing aboul The Curious Car of Benjamin Button is how it manages to be a tearjerker despite its craven desire to elicit emotion from a director who rejects sentimentality Itt an interview in David Priors e cellent The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button documentary. Fincher says he was attracted to the project because he wanted to make a movie about death since his lather had recently died He explains that heing at his father's deathbed was so much more profound ihan having a child. "You want it to be over as quickly as possible says Fincher. "and yet you don't want it to be over This led to him wanting to tell a story about Love measured against this graph paper or something we try so despeiately to igRote That's a really lovely sentiment, but yes, love and death are intertwined as they give each other meaning However, Fincher says that unlike Brad Pitt, he didn't see janin 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 Chal jokingly). "I don't want to see anybody together. want to see everybody as appy 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