Benjamin Button writes a diary of his life, as the love of his life Daisy is dying in the hospital she makes her daughter read the book to her. Benjamin button is a person who ages backward. He’s born as an old man and his mother dies giving birth. The dad leaves him on the front porch of a retirement village and a young couple that owns the retirement village takes care of him. He meets a woman named Daisy and they fall in love. They have a child and as Benjamin is going down in age, he decides to sell everything he owns, leave the money for daisy and the child and leave them hoping they will live a better life.
Benjamin changes personality throughout the film, when he is younger he is very curious about the world and he is motivated to walk and to stand without help. When he is older he knows more about the world and isn’t as curious. You can tell that he cares a lot about Daisy as he never stops writing to her.
Daisy is a caring person and she knows that Benjamin is different and becomes friends with him when she is young. Later in life, she becomes a really good dancer and moves to France and dances for the French ballet. She gets hit by a truck and can never dance again and she is heartbroken. This shows her love for dance. Also when Benjamin is a baby, she cares for him until he dies, this shows that she is a really caring person and loves him very much.
“time is inevitable” meaning you can not stop time, Benjamin can’t stop himself from aging backward, and Daisy can’t stop herself from aging forwards. A key message the director wants us to take away is that you can’t stop time, in the end, you will die and there is nothing you can do about it.
What similarities did you notice between this film and the great Gatsby. Gatsby hangs on to time more than Benjamin, Gatsby always refers back in time when Daisy and he were together whereas Benjamin lives more in the moment. Another thing i noticed was that there were major symbols showing throughout the film. The clock appeared a lot throughout the film, it was ticking backward showing that time was going backward. In the great gatsby, the great light and the colors are the symbols for the film.