THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008) (b)

“It’s not about how you play; it’s about how you feel what you play.”

Comment:
Do you remember when you, for the first time learnt how to dance? You looked at every step you made. You were afraid that you would step on your partner’s foot. But then, as you went along with the music, you became one with the music and your partner as well, you flow with the rhythm and bit of the music. In the end, without you even realizing it, you’d been a very good dancer. Just like a swan dances on the water.
Did you ever wonder how and why you could do it? That’s because you put your feelings in it. When you put your feeling into everything you do, then everything you do will be just perfect. Remember to put your feeling to catch the feel. Feel your day with good feelings and you’ll be dancing though the day in glory and victory.


Summary of the Movie:
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams nee Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. 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 born an old man who was diagnosed with several aged 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. Written by Huggo.