“My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While, everyone else was agin’, I was gettin’ younger… all alone.”

Went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night.  It was a good movie. Yes, it is a long movie but the sort that you just settle in for and enjoy it as you watch. It is visually a beautiful movie, great care was take in in the design of each scene.

The film tells the story of the whole life of Benjamin, but takes care to slow down within the moments of the relationships that were special to him.  (Isn’t that how our own memories work?)  Benjamin’s inconvenient love for Daisy seems to echo Forest Gump’s relationship of bad-timing with Jenny (screenwriter Eric Roth was involved in both movies) but Benjamin seems capable or celebrating the joy of love more deeper and richly. 

Benjamin Button lives a life in reverse.   We who live our lives in forward are concerned about the dehabilitating effects of our old age, Benjamin has these very same concerns regarding his decline into youthfulness.  But somewhere, there is a middle ground where we’ve lived enough, experienced enough, yet remain young enough to live life freely and fully.  After watching this movie, one has to ask himself or herself, what if I am living in the middle ground right now? “Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.” (John Henry Newman)

The story is narrated from the “present time” of the land-fall of Hurricane Katrina which seems to re-emphasize this exchange between the movie’s central characters:
  Benjamin Button: I was thinking how nothing last, and what a shame that is.
  Daisy: Some things last.

Have you seen the movie?  Your comments are welcomed!