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In fact, if you think about it, sometimes love is indeed within reach.
The right time, the right person, a moment of encounter, will complete the beauty of each other's lives.
It's just that love at first sight is only a minority after all, and most of the time, it will still be a passing shoulder, even if it has had a brief sweetness.
Maybe this is growth, and growth always seems to be associated with long waits, inexplicable questions, and cold loneliness.
After many years, we will also place our hearts on "ifs", but unfortunately there will be no ifs in life that has been moving forward.
That's why Mark Twain said, "Life begins at the best and ends at the worst." ”
Frances Fitzgerald, also a well-known American writer, was inspired by this inspiration to write the short story "The Life of Benjamin Barton Strange", which was remade into a movie by the master "ghost talent" director David Finch 85 years later and put it on the big screen.
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Director: David Finch
Starring: Kate Blanchett / Brad Pitt / Julia Ormond / Fanny A. Chambers / Elias Cortés
If you must find someone in Hollywood to shoot time, freeze the flow of time, outline the turbulence and slowness, and the corrosion of life, the trial of love. The person who can photograph time deeply and delicately, both sadly and relievedly, should be David Finch.
The whole film story is extremely smooth, from the script, lines, shots to character development are impeccable, and even many fans think that the novel is far less wonderful than the movie after reading the original novel.
This is also why the film was able to win 13 nominations at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, including best picture, best director, best actor, best adapted screenplay and other heavyweight awards, and finally won three awards: best visual effects, best makeup, and best art direction.
At the beginning of the film, through a story, the concept of "time backwards" and the deep meaning behind it are introduced.
In order to commemorate his son who died in the battlefield of World War I, the watchmaker deliberately changed the counterclockwise rotation direction of the clock to clockwise, and how he hoped that time could turn back after the pain of losing his son.
Huge clocks that had exhausted the craftsman's efforts were hung at the New Orleans railway station, and years later, the victory of the war was won, and the streets were full of people celebrating, and the baby of a wealthy family was born at this time.
Father Thomas hurried home through the crowd, but found that the child in front of him was like a dying old man, with a wrinkled face and crying, and his wife died of difficult childbirth.
Heartbroken, Thomas immediately picked up the baby and snatched it out of the door, directly on the steps of the nursing home, the kind Queenie took the baby and named it Benjamin, and others asked her while saying that this is my sister's child, and I will take care of it later.
A group of elderly people looked at babies with the same aging faces as themselves, but they did not feel too surprised, and soon got used to it.
But after the diagnosis, the doctor told Queenie that the baby had weak organs, stiff limbs, and cataracts, and might not last long.
But Queenie insisted on keeping Benjamin and taking care of him as if he were his own son.
Surprisingly, Benjamin was not killed by a disease, and as he grew older, his health became slightly better.
Benjamin spent his childhood in a wheelchair, and only learned to walk for the first time at the age of 5.
In this large family full of elderly people, the young and aging Benjamin is loved by everyone.
A retired female singer taught him how to play the piano.
Uncle, who is also in a wheelchair, has been sharing with him the story of his 7 lightning strikes.
There is also a dwarf man who is also subject to the strange eyes of outsiders, taking Benjamin into the outside world for the first time and feeling the beauty of the world of flowers and flowers.
When Benjamin was 11 years old, he also met Daisy, a little girl of similar age.
One is a faltering old man, and the other is a naïve girl, but they both have a young and innocent heart.
Daisy listens to Mother Queenie's fairy tales with Benjamin every day, and she is not afraid of Benjamin's demonic face, and the two of them get closer and closer.
It's just that Daisy's grandmother doesn't allow her granddaughter to be "seduced" and even curses Benjamin for not being ashamed.
When Benjamin was 16 years old, he decided to travel the world alone, and he followed a cargo ship everywhere. When the captain heard that Benjamin had not yet tasted the meat, he decided to help the old man.
Once, Benjamin became addicted, and still ignorant, he even thought it was the purpose of making money.
But wherever he went, he kept his promise to Daisy, sending her postcards regularly.
After the outbreak of World War II, Benjamin followed the captain to support the U.S. Navy, and it was during this time that Benjamin experienced the cruelty of war and witnessed the tragedy of life.
As the years passed, Benjamin's body shape and appearance were close to ordinary people, but there were still wrinkles on his face.
The charm first appeared, a married woman began to drink tea with him every night, and Benjamin also felt for the first time what love was.
It's just that this underground relationship ended soon after the other person left.
After World War II, Benjamin returned to the United States, back to the nursing home where he grew up.
At this time, he has got rid of the appearance of childhood and old age, and has grown into a charming middle-aged man.
After meeting Daisy, the two sides marvel at each other's looks.
Daisy was favored by the ballet troupe after Benjamin's departure, and after years of training, she became a ballet dancer with a beautiful posture and amazing performance.
It's just that at 26 years old, she is still too young, too impetuous, too impatient, and doesn't care about anything.
But Daisy, who has seen countless big scenes, makes Benjamin feel very inferior, and even Daisy's openness to "sex" makes benjamin difficult to adapt. Although Benjamin was eager to become a lover with Daisy, he still politely refused Daisy's "one-night stand" kindness.
His biological father, Thomas, grew older and began as friends with Benjamin, but when he was dying, he took Benjamin to the family factory, told them the truth about the father and son, and left all the family property to Benjamin.
After the death of his biological father, Benjamin went to New York to find Daisy, who was performing, hoping to tell his inner sorrow. It's just that Daisy just drinks and has fun with the troupe members, leaving Benjamin, who has come from afar, to the side.
Looking at Daisy and the other men, Benjamin had to leave in pain, especially when Daisy said, "Do you want me to give up my own life for you?"
Benjamin, who has inherited a large inheritance, travels and adventures every day and lives very comfortably.
The wrinkles on the face have also completely disappeared, and the handsome face has attracted many women to go crazy.
He thought his life would never intersect with Daisy again, until he received a call from a hospital.
After the performance, Daisy was in a car accident when she went out, and was hit by a taxi to break her right leg, with 5 fractures and multiple abrasions on her face.
Daisy was reluctant to face Benjamin like this, but after recovering, she returned to the nursing home.
At this time, both of them are over 40 years old, and for both of them, they are the most suitable age to truly fall in love with each other.
With age and appearance matched perfectly, Benjamin and Daisy had a few years of good times, a fierce love affair, and every day there was nothing to worry about, only each other in their hearts.
"There are almost no wrinkles on your face, and I grow a few more every day, which is not fair."
"But I love your wrinkles, every one of them."
But when the child was born, it began to worry Benjamin in his heart. He clearly understands what he will look like in his old age and does not want Daisy and her daughter to face all this in the future.
In order to let his daughter have a qualified "father" who has been with him for a long time, Benjamin sold all the family property, left all the money to his wife and daughter, and then resolutely chose to leave.
Years later, Benjamin, who was already a teenager, couldn't help but go back to see his daughter, and finally reunited with his former wife and daughter.
It was only when he returned again that the tragedy that had already been destined was getting closer and closer.
Regarding this part of the plot, Pigo will no longer spoil.
The shock of "The Wonders of Benjamin Barton" lies not only in the heartbreaking of the love story, the ingenuity of fantasy and structure, but also the gentle sigh of the vicissitudes of life.
You were the best of you then, and I am the best of me now, and fortunately, we still have stories to talk about.
In the film, Daisy's car accident is the most touching part.
The film cleverly counts the various "little things" before the car accident, if the taxi driver did not stop to buy a hamburger, if the taxi was not blocked by pedestrians, if the last car that the female passenger was supposed to be riding in was not occupied by pedestrians, if Daisy did not help her dance partner tie her shoes before going out...
But life has no ifs, only a series of intertwined accidents.
Maybe that's fate, and no one can control it.
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