Saturday, February 28, 2009
The curious case of Benjamin Button.
Recently i was watching the annual Oscars awards on television...notice that this particular movie " The curious case of Benjamin Button" has a lot of nominations and also win quite a share of the awards on the night.
So i went getting the movie frm my friend to see if really that good anot..then was told by my friend it is almost a 3 hour movie!LOL.sianz i thought maybe some draggy long grandmother story movie.Anw i went ahead to watch.
The movie is mainly about a guy named Benjamin Button who has a abnormal condition since birth; he is born old and grows younger as he ages..meaning the direct opposite of sm1 normal la..
The movie about the man is unfold as a story read by a lady to her dying mum in a hospital, who is Benjamin Button's woman in her younger days....................
anw i am not gg to write out hw the movie goes...cause i am lazy and i cant remember all the parts...lol..so coming to the point....just to note down some feelings i had after watching the movie...
Benjamin Button and his wife,Daisy, had just conceived their child, they had just make this difficult decision to give birth to the baby despite the prob with Benjamin, who worries he can't be a father to the child as he grows younger each day watching his child aging...he decides eventually and sold his Button's company and stuffs inherited from his father and put them into a savings account for the child and Daisy and left them for places....alone....he was afraid of becoming a burden; afraid that his wife wun be able to take care of both him and his child in the future when he gets younger as time past...
the story goes on as Benjamin comes back lking for her at her dancing studio and both of them came facing with each other after a long time, with both of them lking so much different in terms of the appearance, a young chap and a motherly-looking lady....
back in the hotel Benjaming hugs Daisy, and Daisy exclaims ''oh benjamin, i am but a old women!" in a teary voice, benjamin went just ahead and carry on....
as the story nears the ending...daisy spoke of how, after his second husband pass away, she recieved a call from the home where she and benjamin had met in the beginning...
at that point of time she was a granny liao....she arrives at the home and came face to face with a young boy probably looking only round 13 years of age....it was quite sad....watching Daisy holding back her emotions, her tears as she press on in communicating and getting close to the young chap now, benjamin.... and subsequently the movie shows Daisy taking time everyday looking after him, her own lover whom she has been thru with a huge chunk of the movie screen, and seeing him changing younger.... younger..... and younger, as she herself growing older.... and older, more like a grandma-grandson relationship liao....
"days went by as i see Benjamin forgets how to walk, how to talk....", as he grows younger and smaller into a young child...
At the end, Daisy recalling ~ craddling small Benjamin in her arms ~
"In the spring of 2003, he looked at me,and i knew that he knew who i was....and then he close his eyes...and goes to sleep..."
This movie plays alot with the audience's emotions, like any other movies. maybe is the music? or probably its just the artistic and abstract feeling it gives?
It's really a moving and touching, interesting movie to watch....and makes me think and feel how terrible it would have been for Daisy in the ending parts if this were to be a true story!LOL.
The touching part probably is to see her fighting against her own pain spending the last years of Benjamin taking care of him till the last moment, struggling within her constantly between the Benjamin she knew all along and the young child she sees with her own eyes.
Maybe it's the switch of the roles from a lover to someone likened to a grandson that makes it a bit heartwrenching.
I think 1 could almost hear Daisy heaved a sign of relief amongst her sorrow as he passes on in her arms....as a small baby....Benjamin Button....
pls ar.
this is just a movie.
And these are just my random thoughts.lol.
woo! thank god people dun grow younger in reality!lol.=p
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