The movie "The Wonders of Benjamin Button" is also known as "Rejuvenation"
The film tells a bizarre and twisted but touching love story:
A rich wife died in childbirth, and her husband took over the child in the hands of a nurse, and he had mixed feelings when he saw that the son who killed his lover was suffering from the strange disease of congenital aging.
He hated the birth of this freak and made him lose the love of his life, but he could not bear to throw away this newborn little freak.
So the man put his son with congenital aging in the doorway of a nursing home, and after being discovered by the maid, the freak had his own name , Benjamin Barton.
It should have been a lively and cute little boy, but in his childhood, he dragged a tattered and decayed old body and lived with some dying old people all day long.
Time seemed to have played a joke on him, a normal person from young to old, but he traveled through the flow of time.
The life of going backwards was a life of passing shoulders and meeting briefly, so he watched the old people around him pass away one by one, and his young heart seemed to be covered with a shadow.
Cursed by fate and abandoned by his biological father, Benjamin is like an April Fool's joke in the world, but fortunately he meets the person who influenced his life, that is, her adoptive mother.
The adoptive mother is just an ordinary maid, but she can often say some philosophical life feelings, she is kind at heart, always optimistic, benjamin is also full of hope for life under her influence.
The adoptive mother respects Benjamin and carefully protects the dignity of her child, she knows that Benjamin has a strong desire in her heart, and she also supports Benjamin to pursue the life she wants.
After picking up Benjamin, she became a mother, with only sight to her son when he was leaving, and delicious meals on the table when the wanderer returned home.
When I first met Daisy, Benjamin was a 12-year-old man, and Daisy was a 5-year-old girl.
Benjamin was fascinated by her sapphire-like clear glasses when she saw Daisy, and Daisy was not alienated by Benjamin's strange appearance.
The two children soon become good friends, and Benjamin, who longs for the outside world, listens to stories with the lively Daisy, plays games, and secretly hides under the table at night to confide in each other's inner secrets.
Benjamin and Daisy get along very well, when he meets Daisy, his heart has a home, he can tell Daisy what he said, and the time they spent together was very warm and beautiful.
But Daisy's grandmother forbade her granddaughter to mingle with Benjamin, and when two children who were chatting with candles under the table one night were caught, they were forbidden to come and go.
Time flies, and Benjamin grows up day by day, and gradually becomes younger. At the age of 17, his body finally became stronger, and hair grew under his armpits, and he became a handsome and healthy man.
Benjamin, longing for the outside world, finds Captain Mike, who has a job as a sailor. Mike took Benjamin out to sea and also embarked on the path of growing up as a man, his first drunkenness, his first date, his acquaintance with the world in Captain Mike's crude but reasonable words.
In the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Mike was unfortunately shot, and he told Benjamin: "When you are not happy, you can go crazy like a mad dog, you can scold and curse fate, but in the end, you still have to let go." ”
Benjamin grew up in the baptism of the wind and waves, he wrote his own observations and feelings to Daisy in letters, he followed Mike all over the Atlantic, and his childhood playmate has become a brilliant ballet dancer. A sailor, a ballet dancer, their life trajectories seem to be difficult to overlap.
When Benjamin returned to New Orleans at the age of 26, he became younger, and one day his biological father found him, a man living in self-blame and guilt.
Despite being a successful businessman, his life was filled with misfortune and pain. The father who prayed for forgiveness was rejected by Benjamin, who had a great grudge against his father who abandoned him.
The kind Benjamin thought of what the captain had said, and he chose to forgive his father and perform the funeral for him after his death. Benjamin's heart was very sad about his father's departure, and he needed someone to comfort him, so he missed Daisy so much.
But when he first returned to New Orleans to meet Daisy, he was very uncomfortable, because Daisy's values seemed to be different from her own, she was unrestrained, enthusiastic, like a thorny rose, and like an unpredictable wind.
Daisy loves the feeling of being surrounded by men, and her dancing talent and beautiful and elegant appearance make her a fish in high society, and her future is unlimited. She enjoys the men falling under her pomegranate skirt, and she loves freedom and doesn't want to be bound by a stable life, so she breaks up with Benjamin.
After the second parting, Benjamin and Daisy's lives seem to have embarked on two opposite trains, and in the past five years, Daisy has experienced a romantic journey that many women have never had in their lives, and her figure has left a beautiful shadow in London, Vienna, Prague and Moscow.
Daisy became the first American dancer to be admitted to the Bolshoi Theater, and her life was legendary and moving enough. But she has never been able to live that kind of plain and stable life with Benjamin, but this does not mean that she does not have Benjamin in her heart.
Every night before going to bed, she would whisper, "Good night, Benjamin", and Benjamin and Daisy on the other side were like a sharp mind, and he also wrote in his diary: Good night, Daisy.
This silent love is very tacit, but full of regrets.
Time flew by like this, and Benjamin's reverse growth magically made him younger and more handsome. One day he received a strange phone call, which turned out to be an accidental car accident that left Daisy with a serious leg injury and a face injury, missing a high-profile opportunity.
Benjamin hurried to Paris to see Daisy, but Daisy's pride kept Benjamin out, and her self-esteem did not allow Benjamin to see herself so vulnerable and frustrated. Daisy chased Benjamin away, and there were two more sad people under the sky.
When they met for the fourth time, the love of the two people would finally be together. The wound on Daisy's leg had healed and her heart had calmed down. At this time, Benjamin was 44 years old, half a life away, and when he returned, Daisy had entered middle age, and Benjamin's appearance was not much different from his age.
Two green plum bamboo horses who fell in love at first sight but never missed it finally came together, and they wandered in love and spent the most unforgettable sweet time. Benjamin and Daisy have a wedding, and the two have a lovely daughter, Caroline.
The daughter is growing up day by day, but the father is growing backwards day by day, Benjamin is more and more worried that his strange illness will cause trouble to the growth of his daughter, he does not want to change from father to brother, will daisy one day explain to Caroline that this is her brother? But how do you explain to Caroline why her father disappeared?
Benjamin repeatedly mentioned to Daisy that Caroline needed a more suitable father, but how could Daisy agree to find another husband? So Benjamin secretly sold his father's inheritance to him, leaving all the money to Daisy and his daughter, and then he quietly left.
Time has once again teased this pair of bitter Mandarin ducks, who clearly love each other sincerely but cannot live happily together.
Years later, Benjamin returned again, and his daughter Caroline had become a big girl, and at this time, Benjamin and Caroline seemed to be the same age as Caroline from the outside, if Benjamin had not left, it was really difficult to imagine how the two should get along.
Benjamin didn't want to disturb Daisy and Caroline's life, Caroline had a stepfather who loved her, and Daisy also had a family-friendly husband, and he felt that this should be the best place to go. As long as they are happy, Benjamin can safely walk through the last days of his life.
One day Daisy received a phone call from a staff member from a children's welfare home. They said that they found a strange little boy in a dangerous house, who was obviously a child but suffered from severe Alzheimer's disease, and the boy did not remember anything, only that his name was Benjamin. The staff of the welfare home saw the name that appeared countless times in the boy's notebook, Daisy, and contacted her.
Daisy took Benjamin, who had become a child, home to take care of him, by which time Benjamin had forgotten everything, and as time passed, Benjamin's body became smaller and smaller, and when he became a swaddled baby, he closed his eyes forever in Daisy's arms.
At the end of the movie, I was silent for a long time, and I was unconsciously in tears. Why does fate play with people so much? Benjamin's heart was full of inferiority when he first met Daisy, obviously a six- or seven-year-old child but like an old man in his seventies and eighties, she looked at the beautiful and lively Daisy more and more ashamed of herself, but when he finally grew up to the appearance of a young man, Daisy was no longer young.
The two men are always missing, never really being able to get close to each other, and when The end of life Benjamin lies in Daisy's arms, I don't know if he remembers the encounter with Daisy in this life, and I don't know if Daisy regrets not being with Benjamin earlier.
If you love someone, please cherish her, don't be afraid of what kind of obstacles will be encountered in the future, at least in the flow of time, you are companions, if you can not meet early, do your best to care for hard-won love, do not wait until everything is in the past and then regret it.