Feel the passage of time as parents die, children grow and mature, and grow old themselves

　　In the southern United States, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina raged. At one of the hospitals, a dying Daisy (Kate Blanchett) gives a memoir to her daughter Caroline (Julia Ormond). The owner of the memoir is a man named Benjamin Patton (Brad Peter).

　　In 1918, World War I came to an end. On the day of the European victory, a baby boy fell to the ground in a home in New Orleans surnamed Barton. As soon as little Barton was born, it seemed different: the mother died in childbirth, the doctor who delivered the baby was frightened, and the father was even more ruthless to abandon the newborn baby at the door of the nursing home! When the black aunt of the nursing home found little Barton, she was also frightened - the young baby in front of her was actually born as an old man with white hair and a wrinkled face! However, the kind aunt did not abandon this abandoned baby. She took Benjamin in and took good care of him.

　　In the remote old people's home, Benjamin, who looks like an eighty-year-old man, is not prominent. So, year after year, he grew up happily. Strangely enough, Benjamin's biological clock seems to be going backwards — the older others get, the younger he gets. Until one day, the twelve-year-old old man met Daisy, a six-year-old girl who had come to visit her grandmother.

　　Daisy grew up and became a ballet dancer. The increasingly young Benjamin unexpectedly went to Russia, not only having an affair with the wife of a British spy, Elizabeth (Tilda Swindon), but also getting involved in World War II. After the war, Benjamin returned to New Orleans and met his former friend Daisy. She is also full of feminine charm; he inherited her father's inheritance and factory, and she is a strong woman in the ballet career. However, after 30 years, the two people who have finally "grown" to be of similar age, although they love each other, there is an insurmountable wall of time: he is destined to return to the young man, and she is bound to gradually grow old. After a short good time, the painful choice came as expected...

　 For the end of the film, Eric Ross puts "moving" first, saying, "All of us will experience the death of our parents, the growth and maturity of our children, and our own aging." I hope that this film will enable people to use a good way to dissolve the sadness that follows in their lives, and I also hope that this film will resonate with the young people, and I hope that through the film, they can have a dialogue with them, so that they can understand the real meaning of the passage of time and the absence of Shaohua, although this may not be the problem they have to face at the moment. ”

A person should live in his own age, if he is beyond this era, he will never find the same age to talk to, the kind of pain that must face one strange face after another in the ever-changing day and all the time, watching friends leave one by one, I am afraid that no one can understand this sadness. If Li Bai can live to this day, I think he will also end up alone.

It doesn't matter if the movie is based on real people and real events, or a made-up legend. After reading it, I felt a special sadness, as if a kind of sadness that has passed through myself for a long time, sad, but I can't express my sadness....

There seems to be a fear, a fear that the person I will accompany for the rest of my life will eventually leave me....