Benjamin Button Story

 Ever wanted to age backwards???
     Ever wanted to be born old and then die young?


Most of us never imagined that to be happening to any of us...but in the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald, it has happened.



   And it also became a movie staring Brad Pitt, Taraji Henson, Cate Blanchett. About a baby that really aged backwards.

   Does it mean when he turns forty-five, or fifty, he's the normal age he should be, and it goes backwards????



    In the movie version, it takes place during Hurricane Katrina when an elderly woman named Daisy (Cate Blanchett with make up) is talking to her daughter about how she met  Benjamin Button. She kept old journals of his. As she reads, it explains how Benjamin was born, his mother died and his father abandoned him from the way he looked. He was adopted by an African American woman named Queenie who ran an old style retirement home, which at the time, was perfect for him.


 As he aged, he was still an old man, at the tender age of eight, he would see people come and go, but he met a young Daisy who was visiting her grandmother at the time.
   He became friends with the elderly as well as the people that worked there. He soon started to change into an adult, but still with the aging, it was as if he was going to die, but was only ten or eleven years old. He soon got older, and by the time he was an adult, he got to know Daisy better.
    He went on a ship during the war to discover what the world was like.

He soon reaches the age of forty, finding out that Daisy is pregnant, and the baby is his....which surprised Daisy's daughter who had recollection of whom her father was, since, with Benjamin aging backwards, it wouldn't be right to stay while Daisy's daughter was growing.

     Time goes by, Daisy's daughter gets older as Ben gets younger. She remarries and her daughter would never find out the truth that Ben was her actual father.

Time goes by and as Daisy gets older, Ben grows younger, soon reaching the age of forgetting and dying as a baby in Daisy's arms.
Sometimes, I wonder, are we meant to be aging forward for a reason, or do we all want to be old at birth, and die as a baby?

   Nobody knows. All I know is this was a very good movie. Long, but not one of the best. It seems Benjamin grows down in age while others that he knew would die as they aged.

    By the end, Daisy's daughter finds out the truth in Ben's words on why he had to leave her and Daisy... that it is never too late, or in his case too early, to be who you want to be.

I think this movie is in the mind of a man, who wanted to age backwards or find the way to create a person who would age in a different way than others. The movie isn't like the book no; however, having Brad Pitt never age and he's now in his fifties, it can be interesting.

   Some people never age at all, while others do show the signs of aging. From actors, to writers, to people who have a gift to never age, no matter what the circumstance is. It could be genetic, or a gift.

   For me, I maybe 34 but I look as if I'm in my early to mid twenties, not thirties. Aging gracefully can be a gift, but for Benjamin Button, aging backwards felt like a curse.

 A movie and a book about a man with a gift of aging backwards, is an interesting thing. I always wondered, if it was because of some sort of illness you can get from birth. There are some illness that cause people to age different. For me, my skin is beautiful and my eyes and hair shine in the sun, but my heart ages faster than my skin. Weird to think, but we all want to never age.


In the words of F. Scott Fitzgerald quoting Benjamin Button: It's never too late, or in my case, too early, to be whoever you want to be.