Starring actor Brad Pitt, David Fincher’s new movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” which is scheduled to debut in United States theaters on Christmas day, tells the story of a man born in his eighties who begins aging backwards.

Abandoned at birth and raised in a New Orleans nursing home, Button manages to elude the natural flow of time and slowly turns into a middle-aged man who falls in love with a dancer named Daisy, portrayed by Cate Blanchett.

Benjamin falls for Daisy when she is only a young girl, but as time goes by and he gets younger, while the woman grows older, they meet somewhere in the middle and are given the chance to have a relationship.

Drawing on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the production has taken decades to complete, after several directors came to be interested in the project, including Steven Spielberg.

In order to pull off Benjamin’s appearance at different ages, David Fincher used various actors and combined their bodies with Pitt’s voice and digitally-altered face in this approximately $150-million movie.

The director has stated that in his opinion, „Benjamin Button” was a production about living a life and nothing more, with all the important moments such as the first kiss and the first love being perfectly marked throughout the time-line that unfurls in a peculiar way.

Furthermore, he added that even though the movie was different from the serial-killer films he had worked on in the past, he believed that time was actually the ultimate serial killer, which nobody could escape no matter how hard they tried.