Chapter 1,389 A more fantastic existence than Benjamin
There are some movies that you may not want to watch after you watch them once, because the content in them is clear at a glance.
Some movies may feel very enjoyable when you watch them, but after watching them, you may not even remember what story the movie is telling.
There are some movies that give you a different feeling the first time you watch it, and then you will have a different feeling every time you watch it.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is undoubtedly the last one.
This is a film that is open to various interpretations.
The element of rejuvenation makes this movie easily discussed by the audience in the opposite way.
Of course, it will also trigger many discussions about life, time, etc.
Hollywood film critic Arenas wrote: "A friend told me that the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is really strange. The plain plot can make people cry uncontrollably, although they don't understand why.
This is not surprising, because I felt the same way when I watched this movie for the first time.
When the first tear crawled onto my cheek like a caterpillar, it was the moment when the movie shot flashed to New Orleans in 1962. At that time, Daisy, who had given up her stubbornness, finally returned to Benjamin, and the two of them were enjoying the best time in their lives.
The happy moment, perhaps because the promotional video gave me a preview of the sadness that would follow, whether it was a walk among the blue sky and white clouds, a greeting from the bright sunshine, a kiss amidst the sound of the romantic ocean tide, a bright and continuous soundtrack, or even Daisy
The sweet smile and all the beautiful pictures made me feel inexplicably sad, and the tears brewing silently made me so caught off guard.
Until the end of the film, Benjamin, who finally reunited with his beloved after many years, has become a child whose height is barely as high as Daisy's waist. The face of his former lover makes him feel strange and extremely frightened, "Do we know each other? I feel now
, it’s like I once had a lifetime, but I can’t remember what it looks like now.” It wasn’t until this moment that I realized that, facing those calm scenes before, our tears were not just for Benjamin and Dai.
When we flow west, we also flow for ourselves. We cry because we have discovered an amazing secret and feel lost, because in such an incredible and fantastic life, we actually see our own shadow - this is Benjamin Button
The unspoken secret of the story: In fact, each of us suffers from a terminal disease called "aging disease", but it is difficult to detect because the symptoms are different from Benjamin's.
We shed tears probably because we have discovered these hidden details. From the moment we left the mother's body, we have learned to cry to the world to announce our arrival.
"Mom"; we couldn't help but curiously pointed at various little animals that jumped and peeed everywhere to find out their names, learned to describe, describe and record their stories; we played with our friends because we were fighting for a
Toys learn to quarrel…
We discovered that shyness can be a kind of reserve, and ambiguous signals can also be conveyed by glances; we understand that although the world is big, it is not owned by ourselves alone, and we must grasp the sense of proportion in our hearts and move forward and retreat quietly without showing any signs of it.
; We are familiar with hiding errors and meaningless words in different ways depending on the person, and replacing long chapters with beautiful verses and familiar allusions. We learn to listen to what is said, what is meant, and watch the play within the play, outside the situation...
As we grow older, our skin begins to sag, and fine lines appear on our temples. We practice various grammar and expression skills, but the vocabulary we can use fluently and freely becomes less and less. In the end, our language ability is not even that of a newborn baby.
Rather, at least they can cry without fear, while we can only remain silent.
More than that, time carries scars, bloodstains, love, and nostalgia. When we experience more and more things, our memory declines with age. When we think we remember everything, we find that we have forgotten everything.
We have to escape, we can only hide our emotions and our experiences, making the brain a poisonous magnetic zone that cannot be opened, because memory is a sadder thing than forgetting; as more and more knowledge is accumulated, the meaning of things is diluted.
It becomes more and more blurred, and over time we don’t even care anymore. That’s because we understand that the greatest sorrow of human beings is this. We barely use a few abstract symbols and words to convey things that can only be understood by heart. The world is still very new.
, many things don’t have names yet, we can only point out them like a newborn child without the ability to express language;
Everyone is the love of another person's life. We hope to fall in love with the right person at the right time, but most of the time the other person is not suitable for the time. You are old and he is young, you are still young and he is old; we will
Just like Benjamin who experienced love, we are also destined to lose the people we love, otherwise we will not know how important they are to us. The passage of time does not make us have more love than when we first arrived, at least not yet
Our parents welcomed us with smiles and expectations, but in the end, everyone had to leave alone.
So, I understood why Benjamin didn’t cry when his mother Queenie left, and he didn’t seem to be sad, because he had already expected this day, because he had witnessed too many such things.
Isn't Benjamin's fantasy story a microcosm of our lives?
Because we are also destined to lose the ones we love, no matter how reluctant we are, no matter how reluctant we are to let go, there is nothing we can do.
Only time is meaningful and eternal!
I thought that the story of Benjamin and Daisy was the jealousy of time, turning such a beautiful love into a pool of tears. I thought that my compassion was for Daisy, but when I saw her lover turned into a baby in her arms and died, I watched her hugging her.
Benjamin is like hugging the melting body of a snowman, but in fact I can feel more sadness. Just like Ben's father abandoned him as a monster, people are constantly suffering from various problems in their lives.
We make choices based on normal standards and principles, and we choose a correct life. However, such a life is very correct and very lonely.
Aging is actually a terminal disease that everyone suffers from. This is the secret that kind-hearted people like Benjamin Button have never said. In order to have a normal, standard or better life than these principles, people are losing and depleting themselves in the pursuit.
The enthusiasm for a new life, but in the end, what we are exhausted physically and mentally is to become like a fetus in the mother's womb: the eyes are someone else's, the mouth is someone else's, and the body is someone else's, with no mind, no soul, no likes and dislikes, if there really is one
What, probably just the eternal pursuit of the standard answer.
Each of us is constantly chasing every day, whether it is a dream or something else, but we are all inevitably chasing and are gradually passed by time. The carving knife of time has always been there.
It keeps etching the wrinkles on each of our faces.
Regarding love, Benjamin has only loved Daisy from beginning to end. As for the other woman in his life, the spy wife, it was when he was lonely and empty that he gave him the enlightenment about love and made him understand that true love is not
That kind.
So he returned, but when faced with Daisy's expression of love, he refused.
Why? In fact, isn’t this a microcosm of each of us?
It was precisely because I cared about him, and precisely because he loved the other person deeply that I refused him at that time.
Because of his desire, and fear!
I long for this love, but I am worried that it will come too easily. I am afraid that this love that is easily obtained will not be able to withstand the wind and rain.
So I refused!
But he still says, Good night, Daisy!
And she would also say, Good night, Benjamin!"
There are many people and characters in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" who have also been discussed by movie fans.
For example, the most discussed one is the man who was struck by lightning seven times!
Benjamin often meets an old man in the movie. The old man always says in a confused voice: Did I tell you that I was struck by lightning 7 times?
"I'm very, very curious about the story of the man who was struck by lightning seven times."
"Same curiosity, it's so cool. Except for some scientists who play with video games when they are young and wet the bed at night, most normal humans will never be struck by lightning in their lives. If they are struck once and shout "I am dead!", then they will really repay God.
Here we are. I was struck by lightning twice. Either I became The Flash or God struck me crooked again.
How lucky is he to have been struck by lightning 7 times and still not die?"
"Maybe he is the real child kissed by God? For example, kissed by thunder and lightning?"
"Then why seven times?"
"Seven deadly sins?"
"But it seems that the movie only talks about being struck by lightning six times. What about the seventh time? Where did it go?"
"Is it possible that he left the last time for himself to die?"
"The film constantly uses the sound of wind and rain to remind that the story takes place when Hurricane Katrina is approaching. Will the thunder and lightning in it complete its seventh mission?"
There are countless discussions like this, but because there is no official explanation, these discussions and disputes are destined to be fruitless.
Some people even went to watch the movie carefully several times because of this.
Then I carefully crafted an article called "The Man Struck by Lightning Seven Times"!
"I watched it carefully over and over again. Indeed, in the entire film, there are only six scenes of the old man being struck by lightning. But does the seventh time exist? I think it does, because I found that the old man was struck by lightning.
Only Benjamin can see the old man who has passed away seven times. Every time the old man appears, it brings a major cognitive change to Benjamin, and each time is a turning point in the plot.
The absurd plot of the old man who was struck by lightning seven times appeared for the first time. He said it twice, once on the roof, and once across the road to get the mail. One represents the lightning-like love at first sight that just happened - being loved.
Only those who are hit will fall off the roof; one represents emotional frustration - getting the letter is blocked by an electric shock. After this episode, Benjamin accepted the fact that he was different from others.
Appearing for the second time, the old man who was struck by lightning told how he was struck by lightning for the third time: grazing cattle in the fields. Then Benjamin chose his profession and became a tugboat worker, starting his first career in life.
An adventure!
The third time it appeared, at the end of World War II, Captain Mike and others were dead and injured, and only Benjamin on the Chelsea returned to his hometown from the battlefield and returned to the nursing home. At this time, his mother was old, Wesley died, and his sister had grown up.
..... The old man who was struck by lightning seven times still looked the same, unchanged at all. He told the story of how he was struck by lightning for the fourth time: driving on the road, thinking about something. And this was Benjamin's first time.
Feeling that things have changed for the first time, he said, "You realize that all you have changed is yourself."
The fifth time he appeared, this year, Thomas Barton revealed his identity to Benjamin, told him that he was his father, and asked Benjamin to inherit the inheritance, hoping that Benjamin could see him die. Benjamin was greatly shocked. On the other hand,
It is also difficult to open up and accept the father who cruelly abandoned him in his early years. The old man who was struck by lightning still looked the same. You must know that he has lived in a nursing home for 20 years. He told the story of the fifth time he was struck by lightning: On the road
After walking the dog for a long time, he was struck by lightning. Then the old man said a word of thanksgiving to God. Benjamin realized that life is a very lucky thing and he has to let go of many things. He spent time by the lake.
Thomas passed away peacefully with his dying biological father by his side when he was born. Subsequently, Benjamin’s huge inheritance made Benjamin’s life rich and leisurely!
In the last lightning strike scene, the old man did not appear. It was a narration from Benjamin, which should have been written in his diary. At this time, Benjamin had died in the plot. This paragraph is the summary of Benjamin's fantasy life. In this lightning strike scene,
The man was leaning against the farm railing, looking at the camera with a smile, and then was struck by lightning.
From beginning to end, the mystery of the seventh lightning strike has not been solved. But let us interpret the last paragraph in the diary:
Some people are born to be able to sit leisurely by the river (friend)
Some people will be struck by lightning
Some people understand music (teacher)
Some people are artists (bosses)
Some people are good swimmers (lovers)
Some people understand buttons (biological father)
Some people understand Shakespeare (adoptive father)
Some people are mothers (mothers)
Some people are dancers (lovers)
So, who was struck by lightning? I think it must be you."
"How lucky you are to be able to survive after being struck by lightning seven times. The appearance of this episode also fits part of the theme of the movie. At the same time, it also serves as a clue that runs through Benjamin's life, which truly makes people realize that some things are changes.
Yes, some are not.”
"I don't think so. It's just that the director had some special idea about the number 7 when filming "Seven Deadly Sins", so he made it mysterious!"
"Yes, the only thing more fantastic than Benjamin is this man who was struck by lightning seven times. He is the most fantastic existence in the whole film, because he was there when Benjamin was a child, and he is still there when Benjamin is old and dead.
,The key is, he has never changed!”
"I think this is using this bizarre thing to tell everyone that there will be people who believe your experience, no matter how bizarre it is. The reason why people think someone's experience is made up or they can't believe it is just because they are mortals
, my own realm cannot reach there.”
"YES! So does Benjamin. You can believe it or not. I am just a young man with an old face and a young heart. I don't know if you believe it or not. The key is that I believe in myself."
