All we wanted: aging backwards!

Hi my dear followers, today I'm going to talk about the movie of my life, better, a movie which I enjoyed and which made me think about one theme which will always be actual: life.

The film I've chosen was The curious case of Benjamin Button, in a way, a documentary where it is explicit the life of a man (Brad Pitt, oh I love you!) who's born old, and, as the years pass, he gets younger, dying the way he should have been born: a baby. This way, the character is born with many diseases and he is given a minimum life expectancy. Despite all this, he survives (good, 'cause we NEED to see Braaaad <3), going against every rule in Nature.

 "Our" Brad's biological mum dies when he is born, and he is abandoned by his father and rescued by a black woman, Queenie, who has always cared about him and loved him despite his BIG particularity. Button was raised at the seniors home where Queenie worked.

Psichologically, his character had the mentality of a normal child in his age. This "man-kid" has never had a regular childhood, or even treated normally, exceptionally by Queenie and the people who really knew him. In the seniors home, he found Daisy's grandmother. And now you ask: who the hell is Daisy?! Well, she was Benjamin's future passion, someone he played a lot while a child, but also someone he was apart for a long, but never stopped having contact with.

This is a super moving story, 'cause we see two people that love each other, wanting to be together and this "strange case of Benjamin Button" doesn't allow it. The desire of any couple is getting old together and, apparently, in this movie, that's something impossible.


The colors in this film are mainly obscure, dark. We have the example of Benjamin, a new born, wrapped in a sheet, abandoned in front of the seniors home. This scene happens in the night, which may be a metaphor for the fact that he wasn't supposed to be born, that his birth and condition aren't seen as "normal", but as something tenebrous, depressing, dim...it can also be a bad augury for the life in front of him. However, he has the luck of being rescued by people who accept him and, most important of all, love him.

The final of the movie is one of the most outstading parts of it, when Button's (literally) old love, carries him in her arms, and he dies...well, just watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4y_JtMj-8

XOXO, Oh My Gossip,

Sara