Reflection about the self inside us

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2009)

A child is born and that small one to be called Benjamin Button, is already with an aspect of an old-baby. A premature aging, Progenies, could happen but that would have occurred in the uterus, if we want to make that in the rational way. But this is cinema, and one can or not accept others fantasies. One can be riding on several illusions and delusions and select what ever premises are offer to us, the ones that explained to us the meaning of that particular movie. A short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was used as a guideline for the screenplay freely adopted by David Fincher ("Zodiac," "Fight Club").
I think that the perspective that best describes the attitude of Bajamin Button as a human being with such peculiar vital cycle(Interpreted by Brad Pitt, excellence elevated to the seventh power), is like a child attitude about everything. That is without prejudice, accepting, full of tolerance and at the same time enjoying more everything about him. Specially some human functions that he did not have before and then just happened, almost out of the blue, like his sexual initiation. He himself is not surprised of how he looks outside. He also could have a vision of life as an anthropologist, or even an alien, that explorer our human nature from the perspective of what I don't have, until I know that exist and then gained, that is why he accepted things like they are. The story itself is painful because it accentuates the ephemeral of romantic relationships, in this case between Daisy (Cate Blanchett. Even when that is lasted almost a lifetime, it is precisely because they are running in the opposite direction in its trajectory, and to avoid colliding with each other, then they allow to many things and persons before loose each other, because the ultimately goal is to remain like two lovers beside time. There are some events of a century, people crossed as shooting fireworks, and a daughter. For her there are letters ad postcards from abroad in which her mysterious Dad is full of love, and advices for her.
It is a film that requires us to accept the premise of the absurdity of life traveling in opposite direction. The same could be said of "Orlando" novel and film of Virginia Woolf and Sally Potters respectively. The premise is a human being who lived four centuries and alternating gender continues being herself or himself along the centuries, in Benjamin Button, the essence is the total lack of sense of ownership of the other, the love that seeks the happiness of being loved and not the cage, because although that could be made of gold after all it is a prison. The film is about how much we love the others, our friend relatives, lovers, that after all they continue living somewhere on the hard disk of our brains.