Film review of The Wonders of Benjamin Button

The film is about a man who grows backwards, Benjamin, who, unlike everyone else, is born an old man, and rejuvenation is his growth process.

If a young adult is the pinnacle of life, then he seems to be the same as everyone else. The paradox is that trains in opposite directions always have parallel times, and it is strange that he and ordinary girls fall in love.

If a normal person's life is to keep losing after having everything, then his life is from having nothing to having everything?

During the time he left his hometown, he experienced many firsts in his life: the first time he drank, the first sexual love, the first time he fell in love... When he returned after the war, he seemed to wash away the lead and look for the girl he had met.

The girl in her twenties was at the height of her life, as a famous ballet dancer invited to participate in transnational performances, dominating the world of the sexes; it can be said that she had everything that the world thought a person should have, youth, beauty, sex, materiality, these are gathered in her.

People call unexplainable laws fate, and fate never allows a person to live a painless life. Monthly gains and losses, and Chinese and Western cultures coincide in this regard.

The girl Daisy was hit by a car and broke her leg in this perfect state of life, and she could no longer dance ballet. Benjamin reappeared next to the girl at this time, but the girl chased him away.

After the girl recovered, she returned to her hometown and found Benjamin, with whom benjamin had the best time of his life.

Trains in the opposite direction, even if they have a time to meet, always have a moment of eternal parting. Benjamin has been getting younger, and Daisy keeps feeling the traces of time; even if she doesn't give up, this love will eventually end, just like Daisy's lost dance career, which should have been lost.

Even though Daisy became pregnant and gave birth to a baby girl, Benjamin eventually decided to leave what he thought was valuable, leaving Daisy and her daughter, who later married a widower and raised her daughter.

At the end of the story, Benjamin grows up as a toddler, and by this time he no longer remembers Daisy, but he feels like he has spent a long life; Daisy accompanies him until he retires to infancy.

At the end of the story, Benjamin dies, Daisy dies, and in the final scene of the film, the water floods the ground of the old house, drowning the retrograde clock.

These two reverse trains are full of regret and full of indifferent tragic beauty, and the whole film does not try to render a sad atmosphere. Perhaps, the director just wants to tell people that life focuses on experience and rich connotation, life will eventually pass away, only those experiences are particularly precious.