The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

After his mother dies giving pitch to him on the day of victory in World contend I in 1918, gum benjamin is taken by his father, Thomas Button (Jason Flemyng), and deposited on the doorstep of a home for the elderly. That is fitting since the infant looks like an 80-year-old gay with sagging skin, cataracts, and wrinkles each everywhere is body. Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), an African-American attendant at the place, finds him. She immediately decides that baby who is as ugly as an old pot is a child of God who must be c argond for, no matter how gruelling that may be.And so gum benzoin (Brad Pitt) the world-child grows up in the charge of elders who share their stories with him and accept him as one of their own they are all outsiders in a country where youth is worshipped and the elderly are viewed as obsolete. Benjamin fails out in a wheelchair and proves himself to be a smashing listener everyone wants to tell him what theyve been through in life. A man with a poor m emory points out once again and again that he was struck by lightening seven different times. God keeps reminding me Im well-disposed to be alive. A wealthy woman who keeps to herself teaches him to play the piano. A gregarious visitor, an African bushman (Rampai Mohadi), takes a fancy to the man-boy and introduces him the joys of sex in a bordello. At the age of 12, Benjamin looks about 70. He meets Daisy (Elle Fanning), the granddaughter of one of the residents at the home. They get going instant friends and forge a bond which will last for a long time. In fact, Benjamins story is shown in flashbacks as Daisy lies near deaths door in newborn Orleans at the time of Katrina.As the winds yell outside, her 40-year-old daughter Caroline (Julia Ormond) reads to her from a diary filled with pictures and postcards about this oddish man who played such a major role in her life. At age 17, Benjamin is much younger and stronger. He leaves New Orleans for life aboard a tug that is pilo ted by microphone (Jared Harris), a colorful character with tat in any cases and a love of liquor. He travels to legion(predicate) cities and in Murmansk encounters Elizabeth (Tilda Swinton), who is intrigued by his mysteriousness.Although married, she begins a brief affair with Benjamin and introduces him to the pleasures of caviar, night-time dialogue, and sex. Benjamin also tastes the rush of adrenalin in war when he and the tugboat crew take on a Nazi U-boat that has tho sunk a troop transport in World War II. Many of his shipmates are killed in the clash. Benjamin returns to New Orleans in 1945 and encounters his father, a rich entrepreneur who runs a howeverton business. He is a lonely old man who is dying and wants to reconnect with the boy he ditched historic period ago.Instead of showing anger or seeking revenge, Benjamin treats him with hearty compassion for he has come to realize that death is a postage moment that must be treated with respect and dignity. Daisy (Ca te Blanchett) is now a renowned dancer in New York who stops by for a visit. She has read his postcards from around the world and still feels they are soulmates. She tries to seduce him, exclusively he is not ready for the changes that he sees in her. But later he inherits his fathers estate, he travels to New York to be with her.But now she is too caught up in the drama and excitement of her career and artist friends. on that point is more to their relationship as new twists and turns bring them together again as Benjamin grows younger and more handsome. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of the better(p) films of the year with its complex story, idiosyncratic characters, and intervention of the themes of love, time, aging, youth, change, death, and the impermanence of life. David Fincher directs this soulful characterization with a marvelous attention to exposit and pacing.The secret to the films powerful impact is the terrific screenplay by Eric Roth who wrote Forr est Gump, a 1994 movie that was also a picaresque tale about a remote outsider and his wild adventures. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is establish on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that has been substantially changed for the screen. another(prenominal) plus is the melodic and impressive music by Alexandre Desplat. What does Benjamin shoot from his odd condition that makes him grow younger instead of older? What are the lessons of his adventures that take him around the world and back home again?At one point, he says You can change or stay the same. in that location are no rules to this thing. You can make the best or the score of it. Benjamin always keeps an open mind and uses each encounter as an opportunity to soften his heart. He makes the best of bad situations and does not leave alone them to bring him down. He demonstrates an equanimity that enables him to handle failure and success, defeat and victory, with calm. bingle of his favorite mantras is You never k now whats coming for you. It is best to see everything as a mystery that does not need to be solved or explained away.Just live in the present moment and savor what presents itself to you. A sense of wonder is a trademark of Benjamins personality. As a male offspring in the home for the elderly, he listens to the house breathing. As a child-man he savors the start of the day looking out over the water moreover like his father did. Benjamin learns how to let go and not to bewilder to anyone Were meant to lose the people we love. How else will we know how much they meant to us? From start to finish, this character tries to be himself, accepting his flaws and celebrating his strengths as a human cosmos Its never too late or too early to be whoever you want to be. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button reminds us that the best thing we can do is make the most of our journey and be thankful for the people we meet along the way. Its all gift. Benjamin embodies the lust for life descri bed in one of our favorite quotations by Diane Ackerman The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to do ones curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day. . . It began as mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.