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

“There is no age limit as long as you do work.”

Comment:
What would happen to senior people who used to work hard and got so much enjoyed with their job in the past and one day we ask them to quit? They’d feel like time moves so slowly. They’d feel like time is torturing them.
I got this experience whenever my grandfather, an 80 year-old man who couldn’t be far away from his beloved truck came to visit us. Can you imagine? A man as old as him is still driving a truck? Well I have to admit he is the most powerful man in real life compares in all the movies I’ve ever watched. Sitting and doing nothing would be the last thing he wants to do in a day.
In other occasion, I found a woman in her 70s who’s still working as a parking crew in a souvenir shop in Jogjakarta. She does it not for the sake of money, but for the sake of “something to do.”
The point that I’d like to share with all the young people around the globe is that, the spirit. We all must possess the same spirit as what they have. I believe our future will be brighter if we have that sirit within.


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.