As it happens, we made the right choice. I cannot recommend The Curious Case of Benjamin Button highly enough. It is a beautiful story, beautifully shot and beautifully cast. I would go to the cinema to see this one again, which is an incredibly rare thing for me to say. It is such a moving but unpretentious film.

Apparently it isn't really based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's story at all, other than the part where the main character ages backwards; however, since I enjoyed the movie so much, I was inspired to finally purchase and read The Great Gatsby, which for some reason I was not made to study in my English class like most of my friends. I found it to be a great read - a short book but where you really come to believe that these characters were real people.

Anyway, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was also quite an education. I mean, without such advanced CGI techniques and stage makeup, we would have had to wait another 20 years to find out for ourselves that Brad Pitt is going to end up looking like Andre Rieu.