Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. Scott Fitzgerald. Tired of ads? Join today and never see them again. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Cate Blanchett Daisy as Daisy. Julia Ormond Caroline as Caroline.
Taraji P. Henson Queenie as Queenie. Fiona Hale Mrs. Hollister as Mrs. Patrick Thomas O'Brien Dr. Rose as Dr. David Fincher. Eric Roth screenplay story Robin Swicord story F. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time.
Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years.
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Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email required. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy. Related: What's In The Box? It's true that most of the afflictions that come with old age - from arthritis to cataracts - were present in Benjamin when he was born. However, only his body ages backwards, whereas his mind ages forwards.
That's why when he was growing up he had a childlike curiosity and naivete, an was mentally the same age as Daisy. Benjamin's particular form of dementia may also be tied to the fact that, as his body turns from an adult into a child, he is mentally deteriorating in the reverse of a normal child's mental growth.
In Fitzgerald's story something similar happens; though Benjamin is born fully-grown and talking, in his final years it's said that his memories " had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. Following Benjamin Button's life from its start to its logical endpoint, some viewers may have been expecting the movie to conclude with some kind of horrifying reverse-birth.
Instead, Benjamin simply grows younger and younger until he is physically a newborn baby. One day, when Daisy is holding him in her arms, he looks up at her one last time and then dies. Since he was born with the appearance and ailments of an 84 year-old man, his lifespan is defined by the condition of his birth. 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.
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