“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,”. The film is adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond,
“Benjamin Button,” is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time. The story is about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards.
Following, the story synopsis…from what I've seen and also refer from web…………………..The scene started with the elderly Daisy is on her deathbed with her daughter in 2005. Daisy tells the story of a blind clockmaker named Gateau who was commissioned to create a clock to hang in the New Orleans train station. After receiving news of his son's death in World War 1 he continued work on his clock, but designed it to run backward, hoping it would bring back those who died in the war. Then Daisy asks Caroline to read aloud from a diary containing photographs and postcards written by Benjamin Button. Caroline begins to read as the story transitions to Benjamin's narration. “I was born under unusual circumstances.” ………………………………………
On November 11, 1918, just as the people of New Orleans are celebrating the end of World War I, a baby boy is born with the appearance of an elderly man. The mother of the baby dies shortly after giving birth, and the father, Thomas Button, takes the baby and abandons him on the porch of a nursing home. A couple Queenie and Tizzy, who work at the nursing home, find the baby names the baby Benjamin.
As the young boy, Benjamin looks older as seventies. He meets a young girl named Daisy whose grandmother lives in the nursing home. The children play together and listen to Daisy's grandmother read from a storybook.
A few years later, Benjamin goes to work on a tugboat on the docks of New Orleans for Captain Mike. The captain takes him to brothels and bars and Benjamin slowly exposed to the real life. Benjamin then meets Thomas Button (his father) but he Thomas still keep the secret of who’s Benjamin. Later Benjamin leaves New Orleans with Capten Mike and his crews for a long-term work. Daisy asks Benjamin to send her postcards from his travels, which Benjamin does.
During a stay in Russia, Benjamin meets a British married woman named Elizabeth Abbott and falls in love with her. They have a short time affair and Daisy feel hurt. In 1945, Benjamin returns to New Orleans, and learns that Daisy has become a successful dancer in New York. He finds Daisy has fallen in love with a fellow dancer, and tries to accept that their lives have separated.
Benjamin goes back to New Orleans and meets Thomas Button, who is dying. Thomas reveals to Benjamin that he is his father and bequeaths all of his assets to Benjamin, including the house and the family button-making business. Benjamin eventually makes peace with his father before the elder Button dies.
Daisy's dance career is ended when she get injured in an accident in Paris. Benjamin goes to see and visit her, Daisy is amazed at his youthful appearance, but frustrated at her own injuries, she turns him away by telling Benjamin to stay out of her life.
In 1962, Daisy returns to New Orleans and meets Benjamin again. Now with same physical age, they fall in love and move in together. Daisy gives birth to a girl, Caroline. Benjamin believe he cannot be a father to his daughter due to his reverse aging, and not wanting to burden Daisy with having to raise two children He sell his belonging and keep the money in Caroline’s account. He leaves them both and travels the world.
In 1980, Benjamin, now looking like a young man, returns to meet Daisy in her dance studio. The aging Daisy is now married to Robert Williams, a kind man who supports her well, to Benjamin's relief. Daisy introduces Benjamin to Robert and the 12-year-old Caroline as a long-time family friend. Daisy and Benjamin then meet privately in Benjamin's hotel where they share their passion for each other, but they mutually realize that Daisy has become too old for Benjamin.
(This is the very touching part……)
Benjamin departs again and continues to grow younger. One day Daisy receives a phone call from social workers. They inform her that they found Benjamin - now a young pre-teen just hitting puberty - living in a condemned building, and that they called her because they saw her name all over his diary. The social workers believe that he has dementia he sometimes forgets that he had just eaten and cannot remember Daisy or much of his past. Daisy moves into the nursing home where Benjamin grew up and takes care of him as he becomes a confused 5-year-old boy with a growing temper.
In 2002, Mr. Gateau's old clock is removed from the train station. Shortly afterward, in the spring of 2003, the now-physically infant, 85-year-old Benjamin dies in Daisy's arms. At the moment before Benjamin dies, Daisy claims to have seen in his eyes that he still remembered her.
Benjamin Button quotes : [Voice over; letter to his daughter] For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again
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Last week kita tengok movie ni. This film is very entertaining and good movie made for kids and adults. We especially kids will enjoy the silly humor ...and laugh. Plot ceritanya adalah sambungan Night at the Museum..
