As expected, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an old film in 2008, tells the story of Benjamin Barton, who violated the laws of biology, or was born as an old man and died as a baby.

At first glance, it looks like a magic movie. However, this magical coat fits perfectly with the story, and all the stories happen just right.

This story happened during the First World War. As one of the most destructive wars in European history, World War I caused more than 6.5438+million deaths and more than 20 million injuries. ..

Although World War I had nothing to do with the United States, in order to maintain trade relations with European countries, the United States joined the Allies in 19 17 and participated in the war against Germany. The following year, Germany announced its surrender, and World War I ended in the defeat of the Allies.

Although the war has ended, all the children who died on the battlefield were put into coffins and sent back to their parents. Mr. Gato is a watchmaker. When he saw the child's coffin, he held back his grief and finished making the clock at the New Orleans train station.

However, this clock turns counterclockwise. Mr. Gaitu made his anti-war declaration in front of everyone, hoping that all the dead people could return to their relatives safely in time.

Benjamin was born on the night when Germany announced its surrender, and his biological mother died in childbirth. Benjamin, who has just been born, suffers from cataract, arthritis, inelastic skin, stiff hands and feet, and his physical function declines like an old man who is about to be buried.

Old Mr. Barton was angry to see his beloved wife die of a terrible monster. He wanted to throw the "child" into the river once and for all, but he hesitated at the thought of his wife's dying request to "give him a place to live" and left the "child" and his money under the corridor of the nursing home.

Although the black mother in the nursing home saw him as "ugly as a jar", she believed in God's mercy, which made her lie that this "God's child" was adopted by her sister and named it Benjamin despite the doctor's objection.

I believe many people haven't seen this movie, so they won't do too many detailed plot spoilers. Let's talk about some details and feelings I like very much in the movie.

Benjamin's name

Benjamin is the name that his black foster mother blurted out. There is actually a very interesting point here. Since the American Civil War, many freed slaves have given themselves the names of famous politicians in the abolitionist movement, so tens of thousands of blacks were named "Lincoln" at that time.

Anyone familiar with American history knows that Benjamin Franklin was one of the fathers of American independence, and he was respected by black Americans for actively advocating the abolition of slavery. Therefore, black foster mothers will subconsciously come up with the name "Benjamin", and a group of white people are not surprised at all.

nursing home

Abandoning Benjamin in a nursing home is a very clever design. People who live here are in their twilight years and have experienced the world. Therefore, the appearance of Benjamin made them feel taken for granted.

In nursing homes, people are no longer running around worrying about wealth. What they care most about is whether three meals a day are delicious or not, followed by enjoying the afterglow of the sunset.

The sanatorium is also the closest place to death except the hospital. Only by watching people around you die one after another and savoring the pain of losing relatives and friends again and again can we cultivate Benjamin's wise and peaceful mind and calmly face every challenge and failure in his later years.

brothel

Benjamin went to Chelsea as a sailor. When the captain learned that he was too old to have sex, he immediately took him to a brothel so that his "miserable" life could be completed. That night, Benjamin not only had sex for the first time, but also met old Mr. Barton here and drank for the first time.

In the United States at that time, teenagers were taken to romantic places by older men at home to get to know men and women and have sexual enlightenment, which was a compulsory course for growth. In The Beautiful Legend of Sicily, a high school boy who secretly loves Marina was also taken to a brothel by his father.

India

After the baby was born, Benjamin knew that he would get smaller and smaller and could not be the father of the baby. He turned all the assets left by old Barton into ready-made cash and left it to Daisy to find a qualified father for the baby again, while he ran away from home alone and wandered around. Strangely, Benjamin also came to India and watched people bathing in the Ganges.

In Mao Mu's novel "The Blade", there is a character-Larry, whom I have always liked from middle school to college. He experienced life and death, and when faced with the confusion of life, he also gave up the United States and traveled around to seek the ultimate meaning of life. Until he came to India for decades, he finally found a way to cure the human spiritual crisis.

Daisy in the hospital bed

The story unfolds slowly with the memories of Daisy's death. She should have been sentenced to death at any time in her hospital bed. The daughter hugged her and said, "I will miss you." This is an early farewell. When Daisy was in pain, her daughter asked her, "Do you want to take more medicine? The doctor says you can use as much as you want. "

Compared with the various rescue measures taken by domestic hospitals, this dignified hospice care is to reduce the pain of patients and let them leave peacefully.

What is the beauty of detail? Every character appears naturally, every line is in line with their life experience, and every plot is promoted properly.

Benjamin met many people in his life. When he met those passers-by, Benjamin learned something from them, and these understandings and gains were reflected in his later life.

The black man in the nursing home told him, "Everyone is lonely, but loneliness is not terrible. The terrible thing is that you are afraid of loneliness. "

The white woman in the nursing home taught him to play the piano and told him, "We are doomed to lose the people we love. Otherwise, how do we know how important they are in our lives? "

The captain of Chelsea told him, "When you are unhappy, you can go crazy and curse like a mad dog, but in the end, you still have to let go."

Murmansk's female spy taught him to taste caviar and vodka, and told him how to love someone warmly and measured.

I used to think that Daisy was just an ordinary passer-by in Benjamin's life, but fortunately, the film kept a love line, which made Daisy and Benjamin meet four times in their lives.

For the first time, Benjamin 12 years old, Benjamin is too old and Daisy is too young.

The second time, Benjamin was 27 years old, Benjamin was too old and Daisy was too young and proud.

The third time was when Benjamin was 44 years old. Daisy was knocked off her leg and had to leave the stage she was obsessed with. She is no longer young and has lost her self-esteem. This time, the two finally had an intersection of love at the most mature and beautiful age.

The fourth time, Benjamin became a freckled teenager with dementia, and Daisy's hair was gray. Daisy moved into a nursing home and took care of Benjamin until his death.

No matter how much we miss passers-by, after a short encounter, our tracks will eventually stagger and drift away.

No matter how hard you try, you will die in the end.

So there is nothing we can do except accept it.

Apart from the factor of reverse growth, there is nothing strange about this strange case of Benjamin Button. Just an ordinary American man Benjamin, an ordinary story about his birth, growth, work, love, marriage, birth and death.

But it is his ordinary and wonderful life that makes every ordinary person moved to tears after reading it, speechless and have a deeper understanding of life.

Everything is a foregone conclusion.

Everything has an answer.

If your life can't make you proud, take courage and start over.

Attached is Benjamin Barton's last letter to his daughter:

It's never too late if it's worth it.

There is no time limit for becoming what you want to be.

You can start whenever you want, and you can change it or stay the same.

There are no rules in this matter.

We can do the best or the worst.

I hope you can do your best.

I hope you see something that surprises you.

I hope you can feel something you've never felt before.