This must be a new record, I haven’t blogged on this blog since December, and it’s now March! Well, hopefully there will be a lot more posts in the future. I’ve decided to stop posting on my other blog, it’s just too much trouble having another blog to maintain. Add to the fact that I’ve got 2 others where I’m a joint contributor, and it just becomes such a hassle! So, I’ve decided to stick to this one which will be my main one from now on. I’ve got lots of plans for it, how to merge my blogs, and upgrading it, and theme-ing it, but again, who knows if I’ll actually do all that work? One main problem is that it’s on an old server, which doesn’t support PHP5, so that’s one big hurdle in the upgrading of the blog. For the meantime, I’ve just switched themes, the old one was starting to feel a bit…out-dated. It’s really simple now, but that’s the way I like it. Most people probably won’t see any difference if they’re using an RSS feeder, but it makes me feel better!

Alright, so what have I been up to lately? Definitely too much to fit in this one post, so I’ll just pick one.

I watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button about a week ago. It’s about a man (Brad Pitt, of course!) who was born old and ages backwards. His mother died giving birth to him, and when his father looked at him, the father thought that he was a monster, as he looked almost mummy-like, with old wrinkled skin, cataracts, arthritis, and more. So, his father took him to an old folks’ home and left him on the stairs. The housekeeper, a black woman who was unable to have her own children, took him in and looked after him.

In this home, he meets a young girl, Daisy (played by Cate Blanchett), who becomes the love of his life later on. It’s a very touching story, moving between stories of Benjamin and Daisy, throughout their “growing up / growing down?” phases. The main part of the storyline is how they keep bumping into each other at different ages. They finally get together when they both look about 40, and live happily together for awhile. However, Daisy gets pregnant, and Benjamin realizes that they can never really have a life together. He’ll never be able to be a proper father to the child, because as she grows up, he will become younger and younger, and he’ll end up being more of a playmate than a father. So, he leaves and asks Daisy to find a proper father for their daughter.

As I watched the movie, I really felt the fact that love is such a precious, and in some cases, fleeting thing. If you’re lucky enough to find a love of your life, grab hold and don’t let go! It would have been so tough for Benjamin and Daisy to have a relationship, knowing that there could never be a happy ending, as their age gap would keep on widening more and more. Anyway, I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t watched it yet, so I’ll leave off here. I can tell you that I did cry at the ending, though, it was that moving!

Movie: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Watched in: February 2009
Rating: 8.5/10

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