The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Benjamin Button
“My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While everyone else was aging, I was gettin' younger... all alone.”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” is a film that was inspired by the 1920s novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It begins with an elderly lady, Daisy, lying in a hospital bed as her daughter reads to her from the diary of Benjamin Button. Benjamin is a boy who is born with the characteristics of a man in his eighties, yet he has the abilities of an infant. The unusual thing about him is that he ages backwards. Shortly after Benjamin was born, his mother died. His father, a man of envious financial and social status, picked up the child and began to run with him. He didn’t …show more content…
Queeny was a black woman that cared for the elderly. The black people in the film are portrayed as servants and caregivers. This was a role in society during a time period (1918) that the elderly were familiar with. She told the people of the nursing home that he was her sister’s child and that he had an awful disease which caused him to be white. She also stated that he didn’t have much time to live (according to the doctor’s report). By claiming that the baby was “white due to disease”, Daisy made it appear more socially acceptable to believe that the child was actually a member of her family and not a stranger. Queeny took on the role of a mother, a natural role for women, and began to raise the child as her own. Benjamin’s life was quite different from normal children. He grew up learning that death was a natural thing that all people had to deal with. The movie showed how Benjamin handled life in a unique and positive way regardless of his extraordinary …show more content…
In 1980, Ben returns to visit Daisy and their daughter which further shows us of the bond and concern that he has for them. Daisy is remarried now and introduces Benjamin (who appears to be a young man in his early 20’s) to her husband and daughter as a “friend of the family”. This shows us that considering the appearance of his age, it must be more socially acceptable for people to view him as a friend rather than an old lover. At the least, it made things easier to understand. Ben and Daisy shared a night of passion at his hotel later that night, and then parted ways.
When Ben resembled the age of 12, he was found alone and confused in an abandoned building. Social workers found Daisy’s name in his diary and called her. She was a widow at this time and decided to move to the nursing home where Ben grew up. Once again we see that the bond between Daisy and Ben is deeply rooted. It was now Daisy’s turn to take on the role of mother just as Queeny had done years before. A classic gesture of human character for a woman, she cared for him until he became a tiny infant and died in her
“My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While everyone else was aging, I was gettin' younger... all alone.”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” is a film that was inspired by the 1920s novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It begins with an elderly lady, Daisy, lying in a hospital bed as her daughter reads to her from the diary of Benjamin Button. Benjamin is a boy who is born with the characteristics of a man in his eighties, yet he has the abilities of an infant. The unusual thing about him is that he ages backwards. Shortly after Benjamin was born, his mother died. His father, a man of envious financial and social status, picked up the child and began to run with him. He didn’t …show more content…
Queeny was a black woman that cared for the elderly. The black people in the film are portrayed as servants and caregivers. This was a role in society during a time period (1918) that the elderly were familiar with. She told the people of the nursing home that he was her sister’s child and that he had an awful disease which caused him to be white. She also stated that he didn’t have much time to live (according to the doctor’s report). By claiming that the baby was “white due to disease”, Daisy made it appear more socially acceptable to believe that the child was actually a member of her family and not a stranger. Queeny took on the role of a mother, a natural role for women, and began to raise the child as her own. Benjamin’s life was quite different from normal children. He grew up learning that death was a natural thing that all people had to deal with. The movie showed how Benjamin handled life in a unique and positive way regardless of his extraordinary …show more content…
In 1980, Ben returns to visit Daisy and their daughter which further shows us of the bond and concern that he has for them. Daisy is remarried now and introduces Benjamin (who appears to be a young man in his early 20’s) to her husband and daughter as a “friend of the family”. This shows us that considering the appearance of his age, it must be more socially acceptable for people to view him as a friend rather than an old lover. At the least, it made things easier to understand. Ben and Daisy shared a night of passion at his hotel later that night, and then parted ways.
When Ben resembled the age of 12, he was found alone and confused in an abandoned building. Social workers found Daisy’s name in his diary and called her. She was a widow at this time and decided to move to the nursing home where Ben grew up. Once again we see that the bond between Daisy and Ben is deeply rooted. It was now Daisy’s turn to take on the role of mother just as Queeny had done years before. A classic gesture of human character for a woman, she cared for him until he became a tiny infant and died in her