The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ...From rich to nothing...

is the movie of Brad Pitt in 2008. I remembered that I watched this movie with my Dear, Christine, in the MBO cinema. We chose this movie is totally because of Brad Pitt =P But unexpectedly, this is such a great movie. The actress is Cate Blanchett from Lord of The Ring series and the recent movie .

You can see the trailer here.

Plot Summary:

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 diagnosed with several aging 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, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years. (From The Internet Movie Database)

Benjamin Button looked like an old man since he was born. In this movie, you can see the amazing makeup technique that makes Brad Pitt looked really like an old man and of course you even do not know he is Brad Pitt ==

A man who has the premature aging is lonesome. He was so old that even cannot stand and only the old folks were willing to talk to him. They thought that he was also an old man. Until one day, Benjamin met Daisy, a little girl who was only six. First, there was only friendship between them. But when Benjamin became younger and Daisy has grown up into a young girl, their love was breeding.

Their love was so intense. They thought their love spans everything including the gap of age. Until one day, Daisy knew that she was getting old and she found that Benjamin looked much more younger than before. She knew that there is no possibility between them. He was a legend and she was just a ordinary woman.

I can totally feel the intense love between Daisy and Benjamin. But, it cannot be denied that Benjamin has become a teenager while Daisy was a middle-aged woman. This is a sorrow while seeing your lover becoming a young boy. Life is still going on. Noone can stop for others in the life journey.

The saddest thing happened at the last. The ending is little toddler Benjamin became nothing like the air, he disappeared as if he has never been to the world. Like natural birth, age, illness and death, life is from rich to nothing. What you can do is, leaving memory to those you love.

He met her while he was an old man and she was a little girl. And he left her while he was a baby and she was already an old woman. What I have found in the movie is, the sadness and regret.