Write a brief plot overview: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button follows the life of a man born with a strange condition in which he ages backwards. Benjamin’s story is written in a journal he kept over his lifetime, this journal is read by his daughter to his lifelong lover while she is on her death bed. The story of Benjamin starts with his birth in 1918, Benjamin’s mother unfortunately passed way in child birth and his father was terrified by his shrivelled child, so he took it and put at the door step of a house. This house happened to be an elderly home ran by a women who came to be his adopted mother. Benjamin grew up alongside the elderly residents of the house, the residents kept getting older as Benjamin kept getting more nimble and youthful.
Describe Benjamin. What kind of person is he: Benjamin was a curious yet naive person in his “youth”. He had not experienced the outside world, so he had little experience with people his age making him come across as slightly strange. Once Benjamin left the elderly home, and experienced a variety of different people and places he developed into a caring man who always put other before himself. Although he changed his curiosity remained, Benjamin always always wondered about other ways of life and followed these curioisties.
Describe Daisy. What is she like as a person: Daisy is a strong women who knows what she wants and sees the good in people. Even in her youth when she saw Benjamin who looked 80 she still showed interest in him and treated him like he was a normal 7 year old. When Daisy grew up she followed her dream of being a dancer and became very successful, this career was short lived as Daisy was hit by a car breaking her leg and not allowing her to ever dance again.
This text deals with the idea that “time is inevitable”, What do you think this means? What key messages so you think the director wants us to take away from the film. Time being inevitable means that no matter what tine will always catch up, and theres no avoiding it. The director wants us to take away that no matter what stage we are at in our lives we have the power to keep our lives the same or change them for the better.
What similarities did you notice between this film and The Great Gatsby: In both The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Great Gatsby a major theme of time is displayed, this theme is dealt with differently though. In the film time is accepted and Benjamin makes the most of the time has because he thinks any day could be his last; in The Great Gatsby however Gatsby does not accept time and devotes him self to getting back the 5 years he lost with Daisy, which he never does because time is inevitable. In both the book and the film the main female characters are also named Daisy.
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