Benjamin Button, who is sitting in a wheelchair, is like all children, full of curiosity about the world, but he is different from all children of this age.
He was surrounded by old people who were approaching the end of their lives. He pushed his wheelchair and looked at the children playing on the street in the distance.
"I've always been curious, what's it like on the street? What's it like on the next street corner?"
He looked full of longing and curiosity. When he was distracted, his wheelchair almost rolled down the steps, but the nurse pulled him back in time.
This is Benjamin's "childhood". He can't go anywhere except the nursing home!
Benjamin loves his mother very much. At night, like many children, he always likes to hold his mother's hand and call her mother.
"Sometimes I feel like I'm changing day by day!"
"Everyone feels differently about themselves! But our end point is the same! It's just that the paths we take are different. You have your own path, Benjamin!" Queenie said, holding Benjamin's hand.
Benjamin asked: "Mom, how long can I live?"
"Just thank God for what he has given you. Do you understand? You have lived longer!" Queenie actually didn't know the answer herself. But she was indeed a good mother.
The door opened and Queenie's chef boyfriend walked in.
"Some nights I have to sleep alone! I don't mind!"
Queenie's boyfriend wants to live a two-person world with Queenie, so naturally he can't let Benjamin be there.
Benjamin's childhood was not full of joy like other children, but he constantly witnessed the aging and death of others.
But he likes everything around him, likes the images that repeat day after day, veterans raising flags, opera singers singing operas...
Life in the nursing home is very regular all year round, with meals at the same time every day. When he was five years old, he began to learn to read and write. Queenie would take him to church on Saturday nights, but Benjamin couldn't help it.
After dozing off, Queenie pushed Benjamin to the church platform.
The priest asked: "Can I help you? Madam!"
She told the priest that she had a physical problem and could not have children!
The priest gave her the "practice"...
The moviegoers couldn't help but burst into laughter. It was true that one moment the priest looked compassionate, but the next moment, his way of fighting off suffering was a bit too simple and crude. The contrast was very funny.
Then he walked up to Benjamin again: "Then what pain does this old man have?"
"The devil has got hold of him and wants to drive him into the grave early!"
Then, the priest stretched out his hand and said: "Come out, devil, come out, devil!"
As simple and crude as ever.
Then he asked: "How old are you?"
"Seven years old, but I look much older!" Benjamin said in a hoarse voice.
The priest was amused: "Thank God, he is only seven years old?"
Everyone in the church couldn't help laughing. Apparently no one believed that Benjamin was only seven years old at this time.
"This is an optimistic person with a belief in his soul. We are all children in the eyes of God. We have to help him get out of that wheelchair so that you can walk!" the priest said.
He stretched out his hand and pressed it on Benjamin's head, and then began to "cast a spell": "In the name of God, stand up!"
Benjamin supported the wheelchair with all his strength, and then miraculously stood up.
But he couldn't take a step forward and fell directly to the ground.
Queenie wanted to step forward to help him, but the priest stopped him with his hand.
The priest shouted loudly, telling him to stand up. Stand up!
Benjamin stumbled up and stood up again. He finally took the first step, the second step...
Although this scene seems harmonious, to a certain extent, it is a different kind of child learning to walk. However, people in the church, including the priest, thought Benjamin was an old man and thought he was just old.
I can’t walk, but I don’t know at all that this is the first time Benjamin has walked since he was born!
"There is a saying that every gain must come with a loss..."
Everyone was cheering and applauding that Benjamin could walk.
At this moment, the excited priest collapsed.
Although this sudden scene was a matter of life and death, for some reason, everyone found it funny for a moment.
But this also tells everyone that life is impermanent. One moment, the priest was helping Benjamin take the first step in life, but the next moment, he himself entered the end of life.
The movie does not focus too much on the priest's soul returning to heaven, but instead returns to the nursing home.
"There are many people celebrating birthdays here. We usually don't go out, so we save candles!"
But in nursing homes, the most common thing is the constant aging and death! As the old man said, he doesn't like birthdays or cakes.
Because every birthday means that the end of life is getting closer.
"This is a beautiful place worth growing up. In this place, people put aside the contradictions in their past lives and only care about the weather, the temperature of the bath water, and the sunshine at the end of the day!"
Some people come and some go, making Benjamin accustomed to seeing death.
As time goes by, other people always get older and older until they die, but Benjamin is different. His body is getting younger and younger, from sitting in a wheelchair to being able to walk with a cane...
On this day, a rather special person came to the nursing home. He was a dwarf. He wanted to treat Benjamin to a soda. Benjamin followed him out for the first time on crutches.
They got on the bus, and on the bus, the dwarf told Benjamin his bizarre story: "I was locked up with the monkeys in the Philadelphia Zoo, and three thousand people came on the first day!"
He also showed Benjamin the newspaper reports.
Benjamin asked: "What does it feel like to live in a cage?"
"It stinks, but there are monkeys and they can perform tricks..."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Benjamin drank the soda he asked for, and he asked curiously: "What happens next?"
"Then I left the zoo and walked here and there, wandering around!"
"Alone?" Benjamin wondered.
"Most of the time, we are alone. That's how it is for aliens like us!" Obviously, he regarded himself and Benjamin as the same kind.
Because at this moment Benjamin looks like a dwarf.
"Let me tell you a little secret, no matter what skin color or body shape, people are lonely, but the scary thing is not loneliness, but the fear of loneliness. I think of the river where I grew up. It must feel wonderful to sit by the river again.
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The dwarf had an appointment with the black beauty. He asked Benjamin if he knew the way home, and then left with the woman.
Benjamin didn't know the way because he was a child, not an old man.
He wanted to stop the bus like he did before, but he couldn't stop it and had to walk back by himself.
He walked from day to night, but he finally returned to the nursing home and "home"!
Queenie cried and washed his hands for him, saying how worried she was about him, but this was the happiest day Benjamin had ever lived.
The camera suddenly turned around and came to Ms. Daisy's ward.
Daisy is getting weaker and weaker, and the nurse has to leave for an hour because of something else.
Daisy didn't care and just let her daughter Caroline continue.
"On Sunday, all the family will come. It was Thanksgiving in 1930!" With Caroline's voice, time returned to that old era again.
Continue to tell the story about Benjamin Button.
On this day, Benjamin Button met the person who changed his life.
By this time, Benjamin Button was able to throw away his crutches and walk on his own.
His body is also getting younger and younger!
Benjamin didn't know who that person was, but the audience recognized that person as his biological father who abandoned Benjamin.
At this time, Mrs. Fuller looked at Benjamin in surprise and said he looked younger and younger.
She thought he had taken some magic medicine or a cane, and his back was straightened!
At this time, a pleasant voice came, it was Mrs. Fuller's granddaughter, Daisy!
She introduces her granddaughter to Benjamin!
Benjamin was immediately attracted by Daisy's bright blue eyes.
Although he looks like an old man, he is actually just a child, and he is even the same age as Daisy.
During the meal, everyone was happy for Daisy's pregnancy, but Benjamin didn't understand until Daisy said it.
Just looking at his mother Queenie's happy smile, Benjamin didn't know why, but he wasn't that happy.
At night, Mrs. Fuller was telling her granddaughter a story in the book, and Benjamin was there too. Both he and Daisy wanted to continue listening. It was only then that everyone suddenly realized that Benjamin was just a child!
Mrs. Fuller agreed to finish the story, but only if they went to bed.
Daisy secretly went to see Benjamin at night, and Daisy regarded him as a friend. This was the first time Benjamin had friends of the same age.
He and his friend Daisy were lighting candles under the table in church. Daisy sensitively discovered that Benjamin did not look like an old man. Benjamin nodded and said, of course he was not an old man.
Daisy asked: "Are you sick?"
Benjamin didn't know it himself. He just said: "I heard my mother and Teach chatting privately. They said I didn't live long, but maybe not!"
Daisy looked at Benjamin and said, "You're so weird!"
"You are different from anyone I have ever seen!" Daisy reached out to touch Benjamin's face curiously!
But at this time, Daisy's grandmother, Mrs. Fuller, discovered them.
She thought Benjamin was eating young grass, so she scolded him, but unfortunately he was just a child mentally at this time.
He sat on the ground blankly. He probably wanted to tell Mrs. Fuller that he was just a child, but obviously, he couldn't, or the other party wouldn't believe him if he told her!
Queenie heard the noise and came out. Seeing this scene, she could only sigh.
She could only tell Benjamin: "You are different from other children. You have the appearance of an adult but you are still just a child. Children, others will not understand your difference!"
"What's wrong with me? Mom?" Benjamin asked.
He didn't understand why all this was happening.
Queenie hugged Benjamin: "God didn't say that, kid! Go to bed!"
Benjamin returned to the bed and told his roommate that he had been struck by lightning seven times.
“Once we were repairing the roof!”
A clip of a man being struck by lightning on the roof was inserted into the picture.
"Once I was picking up mail on the road..."
Although being struck by lightning is not a good thing, for some reason, listening to the old man talking about being struck by lightning seven times, coupled with the scene of the somewhat inexplicable lightning strikes, gave me an indescribable sense of joy.
Benjamin wrote in his diary: "I will never forget her pair of..."
The elderly Daisy was lying on the hospital bed and suddenly said: "Blue eyes!"
"Mom? Did this Benjamin fall in love with you at first sight?" Caroline asked curiously.
Then he added: "Very few people have such an experience. Do you want me to continue?"
Daisy motioned to her daughter to continue.
"He crossed out some..."
Then it changed to Benjamin's tone.
"After that child arrived, everything changed!"
Queenie, Benjamin's mother, has a baby of her own!
People were born, people died, and many people passed in and out of that old house...
Benjamin is reading.
There was a knock on the door outside. It was the dwarf who came to say goodbye and was leaving.
"Where to go?" Benjamin asked.
"I haven't decided yet, but I will send you a postcard!"
"What about your friend? The tall woman?" Benjamin asked.
The dwarf chuckled: "We are no longer friends! Tall people are like this sometimes!"
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Benjamin stood at the window and watched him leave!
That year, a new elderly person came to the nursing home, and she also brought her dog.
Benjamin can already help his mother Queenie do things. He said goodbye to crutches completely and can walk like a normal person.
He also looks younger.
Because there were so many people coming and going, Benjamin couldn't even remember her name.
This old lady is very fashionable, more like traveling than living in a nursing home, but she has never left the nursing home, and no one comes to see her. She teaches Benjamin how to play the piano... Benjamin can take a bath by himself Now, he has become younger, and even he can't help but look in the mirror and observe his changes.
Back in Daisy's ward, Daisy shouted that it hurt, and Caroline quickly called the nurse.
Through the nurse, everyone knew that Daisy's time was running out, and Caroline said that she would stay with her well.
She continued to read Benjamin's diary.
Queenie agreed that Benjamin should say goodbye to Mr. Dawes and go to a place to see the boat.
The old man who was struck by lightning seven times continued to talk about when he was struck by lightning.
At this time, a captain came down and wanted to recruit someone, but the people next to him said that the captain never paid.
When no one applied, Benjamin stood up and said, "I'll do it!"
He followed the captain onto the ship, which was also his first time on board.
He had never been so happy. He did everything when the ship was out at sea, and in fact, he got paid.
This captain’s name is Mike Clark!
Been on a tugboat since I was 7 years old!
He also asked Benjamin if he was okay?
Benjamin said that every morning he...!
He then asked Benjamin when was the last time he touched a woman?
“Never touched it!!”
"Damn, this is the most miserable thing I've ever seen!"
He couldn't help but confirm again and again and finally said: "Well, you have to thank God for letting you meet me!"
Seeing Captain Mike's understanding expression, the theater burst into laughter at the right time!
