"The Rejuvenation" starring Brad Pitt
The story is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, from November 11, 1918 (the end of World War I) to 2005 The last week of August 2018 (Hurricane Katrina hit the southern United States).
The story is told in flashback, with the heroine Daisy and her daughter Caroline reading the diary left by the protagonist Benjamin Button before her death, and the legend begins.
The protagonist Benjamin Button (played by Brad Pitt) has a strange body. When he was born, he looked like an 87-year-old man. His mother died in childbirth, and he was later regarded as weird by his father Thomas. The fetus was abandoned in a nursing home. Queenie, a black female caregiver who was infertile, adopted him and named him Benjamin. Then, Benjamin began to grow up against the laws of ordinary people's growth, and his body became slightly more energetic as he grew older. Thanks to the pastor's psychological suggestion, he stood up from his wheelchair and learned to walk. He spent his childhood in a nursing home and met Mrs. Fuller's granddaughter Daisy (Cate Blanchett). Benjamin, who gradually grew up, later became a seaman on the Chelsea. Captain Mike takes Benjamin Button to a brothel, where Benjamin Button experiences soliciting a prostitute for the first time in his life. His father Thomas met Benjamin by chance and invited him to drink, but he did not recognize Benjamin.
Then he left Daisy and went sailing on the ship. During this period, he kept sending postcards back to Daisy, and their relationship began. In the hotel in Murmansk, Benjamin met the married woman Elizabeth Abbot (Elizabeth
Abbot), and the two became lovers. Soon after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the USS Chelsea was requisitioned by the US Navy to engage in salvage and search and rescue work. During a war, its tugboat encountered the enemy, and both died together. In the end, only three people survived, including him. His former colleagues passed away before him, and these experiences gave him a new understanding of life. "When things go wrong, you can be angry at everything around you like a mad dog, and you can also curse fate, but in the end, you are still We have to let go." "We are destined to lose the people we love, otherwise how would we know how important they are to us."
A few years later, when he returned to the nursing home and met Daisy by chance, Benjamin Button had become an adult man in his 50s, and he refused to sleep with Daisy. Soon, he was invited by his father Thomas, and he learned about his life experience in his father's factory. At this time, Thomas was seriously ill and handed over his 124-year-old family business, the Button Factory, to Benjamin Button. Not long after, his father Thomas passed away, and he and his adoptive mother attended the funeral. At this time, Daisy became the only American in the ballet company. Her career was in full swing and she fell in love with another actor. Benjamin came to watch Daisy's performance. He wanted to tell her about his father's death, but when he saw this scene, Benjamin left. .
Unfortunately, Daisy got into a car accident on the street due to a series of accidents during her performance in Paris, making it impossible to return to the ballet stage. Benjamin Button visited after receiving the telegram, but the two did not Can go further. Benjamin left Daisy and spent some romantic years outside. Slowly his body became like a mature man in his 40s. In the spring of 1962, Daisy returned to the nursing home and reunited with Benjamin. The two started a family and began a passionate married life. At this time, his body transformed into a sexy man in his 30s. Then Daisy became a dance school teacher and had a daughter. Benjamin Button realized that he would continue to grow smaller and eventually become like a child. In order to give Daisy a normal life, he sold all his properties and industries. , then handed it to Daisy and left. He once again began traveling the world, working various jobs around the world, while Daisy remarried a widower.
More than ten years later, the two met again. They had sex in the hotel where Benjamin stayed. Although time could not stop, Benjamin's love for Daisy never changed.
A few years later, Benjamin Button transformed into a child and returned to the nursing home. As his memory began to fade, the police found his diary on his backpack and gave it to Daisy. However, Daisy took care of him like her own child. Finally, in 2003, Benjamin Button turned into a baby and lay in Daisy's arms with his eyes closed. At that moment, Daisy knew that Benjamin recognized her. At this time, Daisy, who was the memory person, was lying in the hospital. When Hurricane Katrina hit the southern United States, she quietly passed away.
Hope to adopt~~~~