The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Karina 2022-04-20 09:01:04

Before the hurricane, the dying old woman asked her daughter to read her lover's diary to listen... "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a sad look back at the end of life. It's not so much like "Forrest Gump", it's more like Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" - the perspective of looking back and overlooking the whole film is "time" rather than "Forrest Gump" The "era" in the story, gently but powerfully pushes the story forward.
When we speak of "time", life itself inevitably becomes a tragedy - everyone dies, and death makes all love must end in separation. It's a one-of-a-kind film—completely devoid of hormones and climax, even as Benjamin and Daisy go through the golden years of their lives together, and are rendered melancholy. Ordinary Hollywood films reach the peak of great reunion through struggles and gains, while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button peacefully reaches the empty end in a dazed drift and constant loss. Grim sadness is unparalleled.
But not only that. The upside-down Benjamin Button is a metaphor in itself: to what extent can a man be at odds with the world in which he lives? The most exaggerated thing is to go against the world, Benjamin is the ultimate example of human tragedy. He begins to experience aging from birth, and the decay of the end has become a haunting haunting of his life—a reminder of death every second. We are controlled by time, space, or a larger mystery. Everything is unpredictable, and loss and separation are inevitable.
And New Orleans, as the background of the story, shrouded the film with the mysterious tone of the American South. The evening breeze of the Mississippi River blew through, and under the misty pavilion, young girls danced gracefully like a distant myth, without saying a word. , can also feel a powerful force above survival. The insignificance of man is magnified like never before in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the film itself is a long stare and meditation on life.
The film sculpts the shortness of life, the meaninglessness, the pain of life with countless exquisite and gorgeous details, but showing pain is not its purpose. The film is to go deep into the abyss of coldness, but in the final analysis, it is to find warmth and redemption. It's still a love story despite not having a moment of passion. Benjamin and Daisy kept missing each other, but their love was never weakened by the interruption of time and space. "Good night, Benjamin." She greeted him every night, and he was finally able to leave peacefully in her arms. . When Benjamin's story is told by the children of the two, all tears and helplessness are given meaning. It is love that makes life transcend death and time and return to perfection. Benjamin Button's life thus became a "wonderful event".

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  • Christy 2022-04-23 07:01:03

    It doesn't matter if it's good or not, you don't feel disgusted when you look at it, and you don't feel that you have lost anything if you don't look at it. It's just mediocre. In addition, it is really similar to Coppola's film, both in story and style. But it's better than the Coppola one.

  • Rosemarie 2021-10-20 18:59:30

    I seem to have had a lifetime but I forgot what it was like

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button quotes

  • Benjamin Button: What if I told you that instead of gettin' older, I was gettin' younger than everybody else?

  • Mr. Daws: Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times? Once when I was in the field, just tending to my cows:

    [brief footage of a man getting struck by lightning]