You are only as old as you feel

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2011)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a film about a man named Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) who had to live his life in reverse. His mother died in childbirth, and afterwords his father dropped him off on the doorstop of a seniors home were a caregiver named Queenie (Taraji P.Henson) takes him in and raises him as her own. In the seniors home is were Benjamin meets his lifelong love Daisy (Cate Blanchett) who comes to visit her grandmother. Throughout the movie Benjamin goes off exploring he world as he develops into a younger man, and Daisy goes on to pursue her career in Dance. They keep in touch throughout the years encountering each other until they meet up in their mid to late thirties and become intimate. Benjamin eventually leaves Daisy realizing that he did not believe that they it would work, as he grew young and she grew old. He comes home to her when she has married and n her mid forties and realizes he has to stay away from her in order for them to live their lives. And in the end they find themselves at the ends of their lives with daisy Holding Benjamin until he is gone. The theme for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is Identity. Throughout this movie Benjamin leads us to believe that age is a number. You are led to believe in this story that the age of someone controls his or her identity. He is born old in the beginning as an infant with the mindset of an older man in a baby's body but appears to enjoy the company of the elderly. Then throughout the movie as he grows younger physically you see the changes in his personality becoming more outgoing and flashy. In this story I believe that the author is trying to convince the audience that you are only as old as you feel.