Benjamin Button was born as a baby but with the body of an elderly person. He had severe arthritis and dementia. Queenie, a women at the old persons home raised him. Throughout his life he slowly becomes more youthful. He falls in love with a women called Daisy but they couldn’t be together because he was aging backwards.
Benjamin lost his mother at birth and his father dropped him on the door step of an old persons home. This shaped him into a quiet and gentle person. His youth made him a fragile person as he grew up. He knew what it was like to be abandoned so was always very caring and loving toward people. As he aged backwards he was very intelligent and wise.
Daisy is a very determined person. She had a professional career in dancing and worked extremely hard to pursue her dreams. One day she was in a car crash and broke many bones, ruining her dancing career. As she knew she could not go back to dancing professionally she decided to start a dance school so she could teach little children ballet. This shows her strength and determination to still do what she loves. Like Benjamin she is very loving. When she was in her 70s or 80s and Benjamin was now growing into a small child she moved into the retirement home to care for him. She was at the age where she was getting tired and wanting to relax but she still cared about him.
This film deals with the concept that time is inevitable. This means it is certain to happen or unavoidable. Our time is going to run out at some point and that we are all on a path that leads us to an end. In the film, there is a large clock in the train station that is rewired to run backwards. This represents Benjamin’s life. The day it was installed he was born. Born a baby with the body of an 80-year-old. From then on he aged backwards becoming more and more youthful and energetic each day. As the clock slows and gradually stops working benjamin grows younger and younger into a small child. The day the clock stopped is when Benjamin took his last breath. This shows that we all have a set date that our life will end and our clock will stop working.
The curious case of Benjamin Button has many similarities to The Great Gatsby. They both has a concept interwind of time will run out and we can’t control when our life will end. In the Great Gatsby, he tries to repeat the past and rewind time. But in the end this does not work for him and time eventually catches up with him. In this movie, there is a clock that controls Benjamins life and when it ends. This all shows that time can not be changed and our lives will always end when our time runs out.