Chapter 1,388 Fantasy and reality, the intertwining of fate
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was nominated for thirteen Academy Awards in another time and space in my memory. Although it only won a few technical awards in the end, being able to receive so many nominations is enough to prove that this
The movie was so well received by the industry.
Not to mention, this movie received 101 nominations in 63 categories including the Academy Awards!
It can be said that he is definitely the favorite to win the award.
The fact is that film critics have rave reviews for this movie.
The famous veteran film critic John wrote a long film review for this film in his personal column. The title of the film review is: "The intertwining of fantasy and reality, fate awakens thinking!"
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button movie uses special makeup and visual effects to realistically present Benjamin at multiple ages, from old age to infant. This visual effect not only brings a visual feast to the audience, but also emphasizes Benjamin's
An unusual fate.
The film covers multiple themes such as time, life, love and destiny. Benjamin's reverse growth caused the audience to think about the passage of time and the value of life. The film explores the changes and challenges in life through Benjamin's journey, and how he adapts to this.
A special destiny.
The most amazing thing about the film is the details that seem ordinary but are heart-wrenching.
This movie is not the kind of movie that can make people get into the movie quickly and get the pleasure of watching it quickly. Instead, it requires you to watch it calmly. It needs such an atmosphere so that you can calm down and relax.
To decipher the hints contained in the ubiquitous details in the movie.
After watching the movie, I went to read the comments from fans. Some people said that "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" seemed too calm, and all the shots did not express much emotion. For example, in the movie, it can be said that "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is too calm.
Benjamin's most important person, his black mother, Queenie, her death should have made Benjamin heartbroken, but the film's shots are very restrained, even giving people a feeling of indifference.
But I want to say that this is the real strength of this film. Is the role of the mother important? Of course it is.
But does it need to be shown through sensationalism? I don’t think so. Benjamin grew up in a nursing home. Where was that?
Many of us know that the profession of doctor often gives people a feeling of indifference towards death, because they have seen too much.
But in hospitals, the deaths of those people are often noisy, but in nursing homes, those deaths are often silent.
Benjamin has been used to death since he was a child. He is used to people coming and going.
In fact, the film has a sacred positioning of the role of mother. Whether it is Benjamin's biological mother who passed away due to childbirth, or Queenie, who raised Benjamin despite the pressure of everyone, the sacred brilliance of maternal love illuminates this story.
The initial atmosphere and power of the movie.
Queenie is an ordinary woman who has faith and knows how to tolerate. She longs to love and be loved, has the most passionate expression of emotions, and at the same time does not hide the emotions that arise in her heart. For the old-looking baby Benjamin, the look in her eyes
There is absolutely no pretense in her love. She loves this child, no matter whether he is weird or not, or whether he is her own child. With this point alone, she has reached a sacred height that other mothers cannot compare to.
The whole movie is about performing the form of love, and maternal love is the first movement. For Benjamin, his unusual existence does not hinder him too much from feeling the completeness of maternal love, love and the enlightenment of the world. He does not
Being isolated or forgotten, how precious this is. This precious power supported his entire life, allowing him to learn to love, tolerate and forgive.
At the funeral, Benjamin whispered in Queenie's ear: "You are my mother."
For Queenie, all the hardships in the past have become sweet notes; for us outside the film, we are moved and shocked.
After talking about mother, let’s look at father.
Opposite to the mother's role is the father. Father's love is placed in a obscure corner, covered with cobwebs.
Mr. Button loved his wife very much. After he hurriedly returned, he agreed to his wife's last request and gave Benjamin a complete family so that he could experience the world like a normal child. However, he still saw Benjamin's wrinkled face.
Face abandoned him. At that moment, he loved his face more than anything else, including his own child, Benjamin. The abandonment here was the foreshadowing of the confrontation.
And the character that lays out another line is the captain, the Captain Mike who looks rough, uninhibited, always drunk, and never sober. I am surprised by the three-dimensionality of this image, even though it is only a few short shots and lines.
set off.
In the confrontation between father and son, Benjamin was put in that position without any choice, but the captain made a clear personal emotional choice. He left at the age of 7 to fend for himself, trying hard to get rid of his father's fate, but in reality
It is a representation of this destiny. When he was showing off his art that he was proud of, other people's eyes were mixed with ridicule and laughter, but he didn't care. He used this as a bargaining chip for confrontation, because the object was unique, so he didn't care.
I don’t demand the public’s understanding. This kind of confrontation runs through life. I thought it was inseparable, but at the last moment of life, I suddenly moved towards magnanimity. No matter how entangled and resentful the life is, in the end, we will all
Leave with peace.
So in the film, we saw a different sunrise. Benjamin carried the elderly Mr. Button to the beach. They sat on a wooden chair. The morning breeze was crisp and the clouds were red. The cobwebs finally faded away and the sun suddenly appeared.
, so beautiful, so tender.
Leaving aside the scenes of family affection, let’s talk about the other main theme of the film, love. This is the saddest love story I have ever seen. It is obviously the right person, but the timing is always wrong.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When they met, she was cute and cute, but he was gray-haired;
When she took the initiative to approach, he was not prepared; when he ran to save her, there was someone else beside her;
The world is in turmoil, their world is drifting away, God has given opportunities and mercy, and dignity has become a new barrier;
The time is finally right, cherish every minute and every second, and the next part of the journey is still separation.
Love needs timing, at least in the form of this film. It needs the best time, the best event and the right person. That kind of person is the one you will never forget no matter where you are or what you do; yes
In the quiet time before going to bed every night, you will say good night softly; even if the world is far away, you will still arrive at the fastest speed when you need it most; it will respect your heart and respect your heart every day.
Build the most perfect guarantee for your lifelong happiness.
We have read many fairy tales. The ending in fairy tales is always happiness and reunion after parting and suffering. The prince and princess always live happily ever after. These are two tracks that are constantly approaching and eventually running parallel. But fairy tales
But it didn't tell us that their happy life exists? No, fairy tales are often just the starting point of a happy life, and then it ends abruptly, leaving them with a happy life from then on.
words.
Benjamin's sadness lies in the fact that his love with Daisy is two intersecting lines. Compared with the long life, the time of love is so short and sad. I saw that they lived in that wooden house.
Here, they were laughing and joking. As obvious as their happiness was, their sadness was as profound as they were. How hard they loved each other, the time was so short, it was a foreseeable fate.
What people take for granted and can easily do is to support each other and grow old together, but for Benjamin, it has become a luxury.
Because a retrograde life trajectory is not happiness, especially if it goes against all sentient beings. In fact, what is unhappy is just going against the people you love. Living longer and younger is what many people dream of, but if you trek from the extreme to the extreme
What an ironic tragedy it is, especially after experiencing the sweetness of love, they were separated while they were still deeply in love with each other.
Perhaps if he does not truly taste the sweetness of love, then he will be old when he is old and he will be young when he is young. However, fate gave him the opportunity to taste the sweetness, but it made the happiness even more short-lived.
Benjamin's departure is an extension of love. He knows very well what kind of family Caroline needs, and he also knows that Daisy cannot bear such a blow. Caroline finally said as the audience expected, she really hopes he is
Her father, but it was only after years of experience that she understood the meaning of great love. Before that, she and Benjamin could only form a confrontation. It was not that it could not be resolved, but the time was not right yet.
.
We see Benjamin running around the world and surviving, and behind this behavior, as shown in the diary, love never leaves, but leaving is love.
This is the deepest love a father has for his daughter. He spends the rest of his life perfecting his lover and his daughter.
He left, left alone, but at this time, he was not lonely in his heart, because he knew that his daughter was growing up healthily. Maybe, he had come back secretly, on a certain street corner, at school. The door is downstairs from my daughter's house.
Then there is another main theme of the film, death!
And death is different from leaving.
The film arranges a different environment for Benjamin, a nursing home. Here, death is like the air, common and silent because it is too common. You will find an empty chair in the hall one day, or early in the morning. The lingering music suddenly disappears, or you wake up one day and find that the room next door is suddenly empty, and soon new people move in.
When it becomes commonplace, sadness is no longer blatant, but hidden under those deep wrinkles and buried in muddy eyes. At first, Benjamin did not know the meaning of death. People came and went, and the world went on as usual. Nothing was different from yesterday. It was the old man who taught Benjamin how to play the piano and told Benjamin the meaning of death to life. But Benjamin couldn't even remember her name.
This is an inevitable destination for everyone and a destiny that is beyond our control. Its existence puts everyone on an equal footing and tells us that what comes into our lives can be determined subjectively by us. Not equal.
The status of others in one's heart is directly proportional to the intensity of emotion. The more important it is, the more it should be cherished. Only in this way can one have less regret after losing it. Grief is allowed, but regret has no way of redemption.
This is not only true for love, but also for dreams.
It can be said that in this movie, the narrative of death is the most understated, it is too common here.
Therefore, the death of his adoptive father, his adoptive mother, even his biological father, and himself were not too sad, because it was equally ordinary.
No one can escape, no matter you are willing or unwilling, you can only let go.
By the way, there are also dreams, which should be another appeal contained in the film. Dreams often have nothing to do with anything else, they are just promises and expectations for oneself. But they have a time limit, and the bottom line is within one's lifetime.
The lady finally challenged her own limits and fulfilled her promise when she was over 60 years old. This was a profound inspiration to Benjamin. It became the source of strength for him to keep walking and regained his strength. In his childhood, he had an inexhaustible curiosity about the world. Love was also Benjamin’s dream, and writing was a kind of expression and remembrance. He used the memories of his lifetime to complete a life journey similar to a circle, and finally returned He has reached the starting point. Besides love, Benjamin still has life and other dreams, so there is no reason to despair. What's more, his love continues to extend, following his footsteps to all corners of the world.
Finally, I have to mention the hummingbird.
Some people's life journey will be lonely and difficult, just like a hummingbird that appears in hurricane weather, just one, lonely, thin, but fluttering stubbornly.
Maybe, it is looking for its lover.
Benjamin once encountered such a hummingbird, and he learned its spirit. The laws of nature were completely reversed on him. Throughout his life, he had to suffer that the people he loved deeply died before him. And, at certain moments, he himself
Leaving is not an option.
I always remember what Queenie told Benjamin in confusion. At that time, Benjamin had the appearance of a 70-year-old, but the mind of a 7-year-old. He didn’t understand many things, and he had too many confusions that needed guidance. Therefore, he was
The night was restless. She held his hand tightly, just like a mother giving her child courage and peace of mind. She told him that each of us will eventually go to the same place, no matter what form or method we take in the process.
, in the end we will all reach the same destination through different paths.
This is the most shocking hint, and it is also the theme of this movie. When I thought of this shot near the end of the film, I understood that what these ordinary shots are trying to show is a simple but tender truth.
Different paths lead to the same destination.
At the end of the film, Benjamin, who was already as weak as a baby, quietly passed away in Daisy's arms; at the end, Daisy saw a stubborn hummingbird when the hurricane hit.
