I spent a night reading the original
book. It was very ironic, and it had the author's usual dark humor in it. He was
born as a little old man who is about 80 years old. Pay attention, it's "yes" not like, Barton Jr. terrified everyone in the hospital, and the doctors who have treated the Button family for generations even swore to the overwhelmed old Barton that they would never work for the Button family again. Just a shame. And asked the man to leave the hospital immediately.
Looking at the old man sitting in the baby's cradle, only wrapped in a blanket (the hospital does not provide clothing for babies of this size), the angry old Barton bit the bullet and ran to the clothing store to ask the waiter for purchases After failing to find a baby clothes suitable for an 80-year-old man's physique, he could only randomly bring middle-aged men's clothes and throw them to his 7-hour-old son, holding his old hand and slowly pacing home.
Although he looks like an old man, Old Barton has always wanted himself and others to believe that his son is just like a normal person, just a little older. Dyed his hair, shaved his beard, and let him wear children's clothes. But benjamin's personality is also different from that of a child. He likes to sit quietly by himself, read a book, be in a daze, and even start a dialogue between the elderly with his grandfather.
When he was 18, he passed Harvard? (Maybe the original text was also deleted after reading it yesterday...) In the entrance examination, when he, a 60-year-old old man, said he was a freshman in the Harvard admissions office, he was laughed at by all the people went out and was considered a lunatic.
After he looks 50 years old, he and his 50-year-old father go out to various social places together. Old Barton wants his son to take over his button hardware factory, so let him know as much as possible people. It was at this time that he met his future wife, an 18-year-old beautiful girl, the colonel's daughter, XX (forgot her name, forgive me for never remembering her name when reading books), XX fell in love with him at first sight because of her unique mate choice. Taste (60 is too old, 20 is too tender, 30 wants a career, 40 has no time), the 50-year-old looks like Benjamin and he got married not long after.
After marriage, everything went well, and the old Button handed over the factory to Benjamin, who doubled the business of button hardware several times in just a few years. With the outbreak of the war, Benjamin participated in World War I again. Because of his previous social status, he directly became a deputy colonel and performed well, winning many honors and medals after the war.
By this time he and his wife had turned the other way around. He looked in his 30s and his wife was in her 40s, and their son, Benjamin Jr., had grown up. Then a lot of things happened, the husband and wife got together, the son took over the company, the second time he failed in the war, he joined Harvard University, etc... As he got older and younger, almost to the appearance of a junior high school student, his son didn't even want to Tell him to continue calling his name instead of uncle.
Finally, under the care of a nana, the baby's benjam closed his eyes quietly.
Benjamin throughout the novel is asked to act as his own age, his father to his 80-year-old baby, his wife to his 30-year-old appearance, and his son to his younger father. No one ever thought he was pitiful, he was abandoned from birth, despised, disgusted by his unnatural growth, thought it was Benjamin's fault, and didn't live according to the laws of nature.
well back to the movie
First of all, the movie is mystified at the beginning, a blind watchmaker who builds a reverse walking watch in honor of his dead son. Then the near-dead daisy asks her daughter to read someone's journal to her, and the story begins...
I don't want to talk too much about the plot, after all, spoilers are shameful performances. Children's shoes on the Internet have also exhausted their praise for the classic lines inside. brad's acting skills have gradually become perfect, and cate blanchett is also unparalleled. What I want to talk about is the love of benjamin and daisy in it, maybe
the rhythm of the movie is very smooth and coherent, I didn't even notice that it took me 2 hours and 43 minutes to finish watching this movie. Under caroline's reading, daisy vaguely recalled the encounter, acquaintance, love and separation between himself and Benjamin.
I always thought that the buds of love when we were young would take root the deepest in our hearts. Benjamin and Daisy met when they were at their most innocent, and then spent the purest era together. Although Benjamin was still an old man at that time, but The seeds have already been sown. from everwhere, send me a postcard from everwhere This is what daisy said when they parted for the first time. And benjamin also kept his promise, newfoundland, baffin bay, glasgow, liverpool he wrote her postcards in all the places he worked and visited. Although there was the accidental affair, benjamin also admitted that he liked her, but I think david fincher wants to express the relationship between a married woman who is lonely and a soulmate who is "years older" than her. A platonic relationship, although it still ends with ml. It has to do with their sexual philosophy, so I won't go into that.
I want to emphasize that despite such an episode, in benjamin's heart, daisy is still irreplaceable. When daisy went back to the nursing home to see benjamin, after the dance, she directly asked to have sex with benjamin, and persuaded benjamin on the grounds that she had done it with someone older than him. I'm sure benjamin was in love with daisy at that time and definitely wanted to fuck her, but he didn't, just not tonight at all. His love for her was broken when he heard what she said about lesbian and sleeping with other men. Yes, benjamin can ignore the past and go to the clouds and rain with such a desirable beauty, but it is precisely because of his deep love for her that he does not want daisy to think that he is the same as those other men. Although he lost this opportunity.
After his father died, benjamin came to ny to see daisy's performance, he could go all the time, but chose this special day because he believed that daisy was someone he could talk to and find solace in. Seeing Benjamin's arrival, the unexpected warmth was unexpected. Daisy's performance made Benjamin, who was not good at expressing himself, even more embarrassed. The dance troupe's regular gatherings are more important at this time than the reunion they haven't seen for many years. Under Daisy's boyfriend at the time, so you are a friend of her grandmother's, or something like that? Benjamin spit out resentfully and helplessly, something like That, and the taste of it, only he can experience it. After seeing daisy and his close boyfriend kiss, benjamin just left there. This time, daisy chased after him again, what u except from me ? You want me to drop everything ? this is my life. When benjamin asked if daisy loves that boyfriend, the answer is I think so.
Well I see u at home. I enjoyed the show. After saying those two words helplessly, benjamin just left, but still holding on to hope. And daisy got on the taxi with confusion written on his face. She doesn't want to give up her current life, the chief ballerina, the performances all over the world, the infinite future, but in her heart, she still thinks,
the accident of goodnight benjamin in France can be said to be a turning point. The younger and more handsome benjamin broke a leg, and the scarred daisy didn't want him to see himself like this, so he drove away benjamin cruelly, but his heart was crying. In the spring of 1962, Daisy came back. Although the movie didn't explain why, I think it should be Daisy who had completely healed the injury and waited until he was calm enough to come back.
Jumping over the sweet love of two people together, daisy is getting older and older, 43, and benjamin is getting younger and younger, 49, both of them start to get scared, especially after daisy is pregnant, it is more obvious. Benjamin realized after entanglement that in order not to add unnecessary trouble to Daisy and his daughter, he chose to leave quietly after leaving a lot of money. Daisy, who seemed to understand something, looked at him without saying anything and walked away without a word.
A few years later, the younger benjamin reappeared in daisy's life, looking at his daughter, who was about the same age as him, who could be his mother's lover and her husband. Both benjamin and daisy understood that they made the right choice at that time, but they couldn't restrain their love for each other. The familiar feeling brought them back to the past, but daisy realized it was inappropriate and said benjamin i am an old woman now, benjamin just held her tighter, there is something never forget.
A few years later, when Benjamin was discovered by the police with his diary, Daisy and he were back together again, from a teenager with acne, to a child playing on the roof, and a baby who gradually forgot how to walk. Daisy and baby deliberately kissed him when they were walking together, and others could not see her true feelings from it. In the last moments of little benjamin, daisy believed that he remembered the past and lost the future.
Maybe there is a preconceived influence, so I personally think that the original book is more exciting, maybe it has something to do with the recent mentality, watching this kind of love film is too deep, it will be affected, not good...
and I always feel that this film and Forrest Gump The original is very similar, in fact, it is the part of love. In general, david fincher's new work that has changed his style this time has maintained his usual high level, but probably because there are too many good films recently, so he will be so disappointed at this year's Oscars. I still hope to see him continue to make serial murder movies next time.
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