This being January, mindless-fun movies will soon arrive at the cinema (hello, Mall Cop!).

However, if you have yet to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, CGG recommends you check out the uplifting epic before Sunday’s Golden Globes. Nominated for awards ranging from Best Picture to Best Actor (Brad Pitt), it’s worth switching off your cell phone for three hours. We know, we know: That’s an eternity in text-messages years. But hey, you’ll be witnessing Benjamin’s entire life, from cradle to the grave.

And what a life it is! Benjamin Button is truly unique -- unlike anything else to come out of Hollywood last year -– and not just because it stars Brad as the titular Benjamin, who ages backwards on the outside but not unlike everyone else on the inside.

In many ways, Benjamin is Christ-like: a kind, loving creature who accepts his fate. However, unlike the baby Jesus -- whose birth was heralded -– the newborn Benjamin is rejected by his father and abandoned outside a nursing home. A barren housekeeper adopts the young-but-elderly-looking child, and thus Benjamin begins his life in a place where all the other residents end theirs. Soon, Benjamin is learning valuable life lessons from his senior-citizen roommates, whom he treats as friends, peers even. Indeed, in one memorable scene, after a stranger remarks “I’m sorry” upon hearing of his unusual birth defect, Benjamin replies: “Don’t be. There’s nothing wrong with being old.”

Through its menagerie of well-drawn characters, the movie tackles big themes: difference, morality, and, of course, mortality. But death is not treated as a negative thing; it isn’t even seen as The End. In Benjamin’s case, death, or looking like it, is just the beginning.

So what are the takeaways for us, the Do Something generation? For starters, Benjamin embodies the message that rather than fear the future we should embrace it; the same with the right here and now. “Nothing ever lasts,” observes a youthful (and absolutely gorgeous!) Benjamin during a touching scene with his life-long love, played by Cate Blanchett, whom he first meets when they’re both children (although she actually looks her age).

How many times have we heard that “Youth is wasted on the young”? Well, it isn’t wasted on Benjamin. Against a backdrop of world wars and even Hurricane Katrina, events that affected millions of lives over the course of a century, this Curious Case manages to deliver the message that each of us has the power to change our own lives and the world. You’ll walk out of this film saying, "Carpe Diem, Seize the Day" knowing that it’s never too early (or late) to Do Something!