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
Benjamin Button as a love story. He saw it as a “death story”, and not a tale of codependency. 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 2
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