
Benjamin
Button (Brad Pitt) is a boy born with the biology of a pensioner As he
grows up, he grows younger, and falls in love with Daisy (Cate Blanchett).
Can their romance survive his curious condition?
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy
Williams nee Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her
side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her
aloud the diary of Daisy’s lifelong friend, Benjamin Button.
Benjamin’s
diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect
of which was his aging backwards, being born an old man who was
diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little
chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time.
Abandoned by his biological father,
Thomas Button, after Benjamin’s biological mother died in childbirth,
Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors
home. Daisy’s grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where
she first met Benjamin.
Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in
contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in
age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin’s diary
are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time
past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy.
Hailed by critics as one of the best movies ever.
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