At the beginning of life, he was too old to stand up, and at the end of life, he had to forget how to walk. Looking at myself in the mirror every day, wrinkles gradually disappeared, white hair gradually grew black, body gradually straightened, younger and younger, powerful, strong, and beautiful. This is a magical and perfect life, isn't it?
For example, when I was about ten years old, I was sitting in a wheelchair and looking at the basketball hoop on the street corner, thinking that I could play that one when I was fifty years old; when I was seventeen years old, I combed my white hair on my temples and looked out the window when my forehead was covered with age spots. The red-haired girl can think: When I am 60 years old, I can talk about a vigorous relationship; I can take off my reading glasses when I am 25 years old, and when I think about 70 years old, I can take a backpack and hike the world. In this way, when we are young, we can imagine a vibrant, colorful, and powerful old life without worrying about wrinkles and age spots. When we sway around to go to work, we will think that all this is for perfection in the future. Twenty years of hard work, is this kind of life more worth looking forward to and more interesting?
Benjamin Button is such a person. When his wrinkled face survived his mother's dystocia, he was destined to have an unusual life. However, there is a small problem. He is the only one who can live like this. Therefore, witnessing deaths and departures one after another in the nursing home in childhood cannot erase the shadow of aging for the loved one in the heart. When he was old, he met the red-haired Daisy with a cane on crutches, and hopped to the front, like an angel. This is the starting point.
Benjamin, who lives and gets younger, has more experience than others. He traveled the world with the tugboat and experienced war. I met a British diplomat's wife who was "as pale as a piece of white paper" in Russia in the cold weather. They had a tryst in the empty hotel lobby in the middle of the night, drinking tea, caviar, and vodka. The woman said: If we are going to have an affair, you are never to look at me during the day, and we are always to part before sunrise, and we will never say I love you. Those are the rules. The streets shivered in the freezing cold midnight.
The red-haired Daisy has grown into a ballet star, Benjamin's age spots are gone, wrinkles are gone, and his white hair has become gray and darker. They met in their hometown. Daisy is a young and beautiful girl who is frivolous. She danced gracefully on the empty field at midnight, her body line being perfectly silhouetted by moonlight. However, the time is still wrong, Daisy is too young, and Benjamin is too. . . old.
Until Daisy had a car accident in Paris, the bright yellow windbreaker was spinning, like a dahlia in the middle of the road. The red hair was also spilled all over the floor. She was covered with scars, one leg was hoisted high, and she could no longer dance. The beautiful, frivolous, young Daisy was injured. She turned her head and said coldly: I don't want to have any intersection with you, Benjamin.
So their reunion can only go back to the starting point. In the nursing home, Benjamin's short hair turned completely golden, and he was handsome in a jacket. Daisy finally rolled up her long hair and transformed into a calm woman.
They are like a candle burning at both ends, and finally meet in the middle of the golden year.
-Will you still love me when my skin grows old and saggy? When my skin grows old and saggy?
-Will you still love me when I have acnes? When I wet the bed? When I'm afraid what's on upstairs?
They go out to sea together, swim at midnight, have sex on the deck, and watch the sunrise on the tropical beach.
-I am so glad we didnt find one another when I was 26.
-Why did you say that?
-I was so young. And you were so old. It happens when it is supposed to happen.
Daisy也曾因自己韶华流逝The lover was getting younger and saddened, but when she finally could open her own ballet studio, she also found her balance in life. After class and sending the children away, Daisy stretched his limbs alone in the dance classroom. The lines of his body were as beautiful and flawless as ever, except that his injured leg could no longer withstand the triptych. Benjamin looked at his lover intently.
-We are meeting in the middle.
-We finally caught up with each other.
A girl was born. Benjamin couldn't be a father, and he didn't want to be a playmate of his daughter, so he chose to travel long distances again. Send postcards from all over the world to my daughter just like sending postcards to Daisy.
For what it's worth, it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you wanna be. It has no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing . We can make the best or worst out of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that stop you, I hope you feel things you never felt before, I hope you meet people with a different point of view, I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start it all over again.
Later, the elderly woman Daisy found a face in the nursing home Benjamin, a teenager with acne, sat in front of the piano, his memory confused.
Later, the elderly woman Daisy took the toddler Benjamin and taught him how to walk and how to eat.
Finally, Benjamin slept peacefully in the swaddle in Daisy's arms.
This is a story about time and love. The theme is so eternal, the original work is so upright (Fitzgerald), and the adaptation is so appropriate. From the beginning to the end, the picture is full of nostalgic halo. With the southern accent of the characters in the play, it can’t help but remind people of Mark. Twain style, the American South full of miracles and black mothers. David Fincher trained Brad Pitt, the most restrained performer, and Cate Blanchett, the most beautiful, elegant and moving queen so far. There is also an unrepeatable intersection of Tilda Swinton and Cate in the same film.
From the beginning to the end, Cate wielded a shiny red long hair, sometimes scattered and sometimes tied up, her forehead was always smooth, her body line was always perfect, and a standard southern accent could also be spoken of the nobility of a ballerina by her. From a young girl to middle age to old age, this is Daisy who is too beautiful to breathe. This is the Queen Cate who has conquered everyone again.
Tilda Swinton also has a self-stylized interpretation of that pale and mysterious woman. She is dressed in gorgeous fur, her eyes are as cold as ice, but she is also sad. She recounted the dream that she could not complete when she was young, and eventually became the old woman who successfully crossed the English Channel in the TV news. She tremblingly said: Anything is possible, I suppose. Cate who came out of the bathroom looked up and saw this. Piece of news, this moment is the intersection of the two goddesses.
On the one hand, Brad Pitt converged and kept his acting skills low, on the other hand, he was completely covered by the colorful Cate. However, he is the only one who can handle such a magical southern story, about time going back and true love forever, about true and false, about the man who left home and returned home again and again, wearing a leather jacket and riding a Harley. Benjamin Button, he lived a whole life backwards. Out of the ordinary.
I love the handling of the cause of Daisy's car accident in Paris. Countless assumptions, countless inverted pictures, time flows clearly in the picture, flowing in the narration, the feeling of destiny is instantly magnified hundreds of times.
If you are born in the old age and die in the infant, life seems to be more relieved and expect more. But the love flowing in time, or the time flowing in love, will still not change. Let us believe.
I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength, to start it all over again.
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