Author: Da Li
The story of Benjamin Barton (hereinafter referred to as Benjamin) cannot be copied.
When Benjamin was first born, his face was wrinkled like a pinched can, and his mother died of excessive blood loss, which his father could not accept and abandoned him in front of a nursing home. Luckily, the head of the nursing home, mr. and Mrs. Queenie, adopted him, and Queenie has been his mother ever since.
The doctor asserted that baby Benjamin was born with premature aging, severe cataracts, arthritis, and poor hearing, like an eighty-year-old man, who could not live long.
But miraculously, Benjamin achieved reverse growth, others are getting older, he is getting older and younger, when others are still babies, he is an old man, when others are old, he becomes a pink baby, his life is realized and reversed.
The Miracle of Benjamin Button is about Benjamin's miraculous life.
Benjamin was undoubtedly an outlier, destined to live an outlier life all his life. And he also met a lot of people, who are also "outliers".
There was a captain who wanted to become an artist, but because he was controlled by his father when he was a child, he did not get his wish, and finally the son inherited his father's business.
The captain had a dream of becoming a tattoo artist, and although his profession was captain, he secretly engaged in art.
He tattooed his own body, the bird, the dragon, everything he wanted, he couldn't be an artist, but he became the master of the artist.
He carved his artistic dream into himself.
He said something impressive: Let people say go, do whatever you want, and I happen to be an artist.
Who says a captain can't be an artist? A scruffy, alcoholic, lustful captain, who rebels through his own ways and fate, becomes the man he wants to be.
If gossip can stop a person's footsteps, it can only mean that the person's dream is not firm enough, or that the dream is not enough.
There is another person in the film who has a great influence on Benjamin, he is a person who has been married five times, and his five wives have all died for different reasons. When he told these personal experiences to others like a bystander, Benjamin was an old man less than ten years old.
He was the first to take Benjamin out and let him come back on his own. That day, Benjamin walked home in the dark with a cane. Benjamin, who should have complained about him, was grateful, saying it was his happiest day.
I think that's because he was the first to treat Benjamin as a normal person.
Benjamin, who grew up blinded by abnormal development, found hope in this experience.
When children of the same age frolicked in the street, he could only sit in a wheelchair and look at the street corner where they disappeared, imagining the scenery on the other side of the street corner.
However, this man allows Benjamin to discover that he can also get out of the "siege" and see the outside world.
He said a word to Benjamin: No matter what color or body type, people are lonely, but what is terrible is not loneliness, but fear of loneliness.
Benjamin's life is destined to be lonely, others are getting older, only he is quietly getting younger, he has witnessed the changes of the years, the death of the deceased, traveling alone in the world, until he becomes a baby, the first appearance of human beings coming to the world, experiencing real rejuvenation.
His life is the clock hand that goes backwards, moving forward alone in loneliness.
Perhaps it is the experience of old age in advance that makes him feel more deeply about loneliness, knowing that there are thousands of kinds of loneliness in the world, none of which is the same as others, and all he can do is to be friends with loneliness.
Loneliness itself is not terrible, what is terrible is your attitude towards loneliness.
There is an important character in the movie, Daisy.
Daisy can also be said to be an outlier. She followed her grandmother to the nursing home as a child and met Benjamin, but she easily accepted the fact that Benjamin was an "old kid" and became friends with him.
Benjamin later left the nursing home and went to sea to become a seafarer, and the two separated.
When Benjamin returned, Daisy also grew up and became a ballet dancer, with a beautiful face, a perfect body, a full social circle, and she performed all over the world, with endless scenery. In the eyes of others, she has a perfect life.
However, she did not come together with Benjamin, and there seemed to be an insurmountable gap between the two, called time.
The subject she said, Benjamin could not understand; Benjamin's life had nothing to do with her.
The two little guesses of their youth have changed their taste, mixed with embarrassment and helplessness.
However, this is nothing, and it is also a kind of like to live their own lives.
But in a car accident, Daisy broke her leg and was able to walk normally after recovering, but she could no longer dance.
How perfect Daisy is on stage, how tragic Daisy is in the hospital bed.
Perfect things are always fragile, and Daisy is like cracked glass, no longer perfect.
Daisy, who has been through the test of life, finally comes together with Benjamin.
All the perfection in the world has cracks.
Benjamin's outlier, Daisy's broken leg, makes two people who love each other an extra layer of dependence and understanding, and the combination of the two makes up for each other, merges with each other, and is more beautiful and firm.
The beauty of the world is not achieved overnight, but the sympathy after experiencing the world.
Benjamin says Daisy finally understands that there is no such thing as a perfect person in the world.
He helped Daisy out of her confusion and stop feeling sorry for herself.
Later, Daisy opened a dance classroom and taught the children to dance, regaining hope in another way.
Daisy's experience is like a beautiful swan being knocked down to the world, contaminated with the tacky atmosphere of the world, and finally becoming a mortal.
Fall from heaven to hell, and then return from hell to earth.
Daisy was so beautiful, so beautiful that she wanted to break her with her own hands. But she spliced herself together again, and the traces of the splicing were a testimony to her vitality.
Maybe that's life, there's no perfect life, there's no perfect person, there's just a patchwork of perfect rifts.
But who's to say that the perfection of this patchwork is not perfect?
Life is more weighty because of the recombination, and clearer because of the indelible traces.
The road you have walked, the fall you have fallen, a turnip and a pit, will become a witness.
Benjamin and Daisy had a daughter.
The family that should have been happy, as Daisy grew older, Benjamin became younger and younger, and contradictions appeared.
Benjamin realized that as his daughter grew older, he would get smaller and smaller, and that he might have become a baby when his daughter was in full swing.
He left, while the girl still couldn't remember him.
He said to Daisy: You should find a father who can accompany her growing up.
He travels around, sending a photo of his daughter's birthday every year, followed by a paragraph.
He said: Be the person you want to be, there is no time limit, as long as you want, you can start whenever you want.
He said: You can change from now on, you can also remain unchanged, this matter, there are no rules to speak of.
He also said: I hope you are proud of your life, and if you find that you have not yet done it, I hope you have the courage to do it again.
Benjamin felt the sadness of the old man's twilight in advance, so when he was getting younger and younger, he had more courage to do whatever he wanted, and to try to become what kind of person he wanted to be.
In real life, on the contrary, people often regret wasting their time when they were full of gray hair and achieving nothing when they were young.
Benjamin's experience seems to be telling us not to be age-bound and to do whatever we want.
His life is the opposite of ordinary people, a reversal of others. If people were able to regret it in advance like he did, maybe a lot of things would be different.
It's a pity there are no ifs.
"You can change or you can stay the same", this sentence is a portrayal of Benjamin's life.
In his old age, he struggled to learn to walk; when he was young, he began to wander the world.
He has been shaping his life with actions until finally his intellect deteriorates and his body becomes a baby.
He didn't become a great person, he just took every step without regret, every step changed.
above.
There are a lot of people who like this movie, and the reasons for liking it are different, and I think it can be roughly divided into two categories.
One is the people who are changing and have been changing, and the other is the people who will always be the same.
What category do you fall into?