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Not gonna lie, the last 10 minutes almost made me cry


Just showing him age down from 13 to an infant shouldn't have been written as well as it was! The part where we last see him in 1980 as a 23 year old, the sad music clues you in on "this is the last time you're gonna see him as an adult". The scene that follows; is him as a 13 year old at the same house he was sent to when he was born as an 84 year old man, on the night WW1 ended, 72 years prior and its really shocking to see and the whole child to infant regression scene is played very straight and not campy at all and I applaud the writers for doing that! The final scene with the backwards running clock in the basement when it's getting flooded by Hurricane Katrina is truly haunting and sad! It's just a reminder that an era has truly ended and both Benjamin and Daisy no longer among the living and we see a quick montage of all the people he met in his life, going from an old man to a young man!

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i love dark thrillers, serial killer movies, complicated investigation dramas and mafia movies; but god damn did this movie depress me, sad as hell, top quality script and story telling, super original, but probably more sad than anything i ever watched, incredible movie.

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I enjoyed TCCoBB more than Forrest Gump. While I Like FG, I feel like BB benefitted from two things; the characters were a lot nicer and the fact our protagonist isn't beating up every boyfriend of the girl he also happens to love. While I'm mostly into horror slashers and crude buddy comedies, there are a few exceptions for stuff like dramas and some musicals.

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