Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Create a list ». Plan to watch. Wake up, it's time. See all related lists ». Share this page:. Fitzgerald's story ends in a similar manner:.
He did not remember clearly whether the milk was warm or cool at his last feeding or how the days passed -there was only his crib and Nana's familiar presence. And then he remembered nothing. When he was hungry he cried - that was all. Through the noons and nights he breathed and over him there were soft mumblings and murmurings that he scarcely heard, and faintly differentiated smells, and light and darkness.
Since Benjamin develops many of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, his death might be attributed to dementia, which in its end stages causes a person to lose the ability to coordinate basic functions like swallowing or breathing. A less grim and more poetic interpretation of Benjamin's death is that he had simply come to the end of his natural life.
Related: The Best Movie Directors of the s. The somewhat surprising message at the heart of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is that Benjamin's strange condition doesn't really matter. Ultimately, after all, he goes out of the world the same way he came in: " alone and with nothing.
Though Benjamin's backwards aging certainly helps him to make the most of his later life, the final montage of the important people he has encountered throughout his life sends a message that opportunities don't end when youth does. Elizabeth Abbott Tilda Swinton , who abandoned her dream of swimming the English Channel after failing to do so as a young woman, finally succeeds when she's in her sixties.
Daisy is distraught at the loss of her dancing career after her accident, but in her later life starts a dance studio and teaches other girls how to dance. His father Thomas promised the mother Caroline that Ben will have a safe place to live, but abandoned him; laying the baby on the steps of a nursing home, leaving eighteen dollars for the person who takes care of him.
Queenie, who runs the nursing home, along with her boyfriend Tizzy Weathers finds Ben and decides to raise him as her own son.
Inside, Queenie lays Ben in her bedroom drawer, while she gets a doctor who happens to be there. He reports several health issues, relating to that of "a man well in his 80s' on his way to the grave". Queenie was Benjamin's adoptive mother. Queenie and Tizzy stumbled upon the newborn Benjamin on the steps of the nursing home.
Top review. Coldness and Warmth. The curious saga of a man ageing backwards, gives Fincher the possibility of doing what he does best, tricks. It is the drama part that he doesn't seem to master or perhaps he doesn't care.
Here he gets infatuated by the CGI and manages some spectacular punches but it is thanks to Brad Pitt the the exercise has a soul. He is truly remarkable. He manages to overcome the distraction of the gadgetry and show us the interior of the man. Brad Pitt's warmth wins over David Fincher's coldness and the most successful parts of the film are reflected in Brad Pitt's eyes. Geared towards an inexorable ending, there are moments of real beauty and tenderness. I'm convinced those moments could have been captured with a Super 8.
The over direction of Fincher puts the emotional undertone in real jeopardy but, thankfully, the overall experience is mostly a welcome and rewarding one. FAQ Is it possible to read Fitzgerald's story online? How closely does the movie follow Fitzgerald's story? Details Edit. Release date December 25, United States. United States. Official Facebook Official site Japan. English Russian French. Benjamin Button.
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