"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" tells the bizarre story of Benjamin Button, who was born as an 80-year-old man, gradually becomes younger as the years go by, and finally returns to baby form, and dies in the arms of his elderly lover Daisy.
Benjamin Patton was born on the day of the end of the First World War, and he was born with "senile disease", looking like an old man in his old age, his mother died in childbirth, and his father only looked at him, and then rushed out of the house with him in his arms, and abandoned him on the steps of the nursing home in a panic. Queenie, a staff member at the nursing home, found him because it was difficult to get pregnant, and the kind Queenie adopted him and named him Benjamin Button.
Benjamin was diagnosed with organ failure throughout his body, and doctors determined that he would not live long. But he didn't expect that as he continued to grow up, he would live younger and younger.
In the lonely and lonely life of the nursing home, Ben meets a little girl, Daisy. Ben is 6 years older than Daisy, but he looks like an old man who can't walk well, and although the two are friends, their relationship is blocked by Daisy's grandmother.
As time passed, the old people in the old people's home kept leaving, but Benjamin became more and more energetic. For the sake of the wider and wider world outside, Ben applied to become a seafarer and began his time traveling. During the trip, Ben met Elizabeth, the wife of the British ambassador, and the two often went on late-night dates in the lobby of the hotel, developing into undisclosed lovers who became a solace in each other's hearts.
After returning from World War II, although he was only 26 years old, he was about 60 years old, and his childhood friend, 20-year-old Daisy, has become an excellent dancer, living in the bustling metropolis of New York, with a rich and colorful experience. Ben, who returned to his hometown to live in a nursing home after the war, waited for Daisy, who returned to his hometown to visit relatives, but in the face of such an excellent Daisy, the huge gap between the two became a gap in their interactions. Daisy wants to be with Ben, but he refuses because of low self-esteem, and the two miss out on a long life.
Years later, after a car accident and unable to continue her dance career, Daisy returned to her hometown after being displaced. At 49 years old, Ben's looks finally matched her age, and Daisy was 43 years old at the time. The two can finally love each other with all their hearts without any worries. Ben's captain told him before he died: Life is just an experience. Change is the eternal and unchanging, and it can only be accepted. You can be resentful of everything around you like a mad dog, you can curse fate, but at the last moment, you have to let go peacefully.
So when their love crystallized and a daughter was born, Ben was worried that Daisy would not be able to raise two children in the future, so he resolutely chose to leave his hometown and travel the world. Daisy watches her lover go away without a choice. In desperation, she took her daughter to organize a new family.
The people around him are getting older, and Ben also returns to his hometown when he is youngest, meeting his aging lover and growing daughter. The years flowed inexorably, and Ben inevitably turned from an energetic young man to an amnesiac teenager. The good Samaritans of the town found Daisy's *** Daisy from his belongings and sent him to a nursing home, where she stayed with Ben until he became a baby. Finally, in Ben's final moments, his eyes tell Daisy that he recognizes the person he loves the most and passes away peacefully in her tender arms.
Whether time goes forward or backwards, the gains and losses, encounters and misses in the world, everyone is no different. The same thing is that everyone's day will have different changes, which is the eternal change. Because there are regrets, life is more meaningful. We are destined to lose loved ones, otherwise how would we know how important they are in our lives. This is a fact that everyone in the world has to face bravely.