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romantic drama film : “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”.
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An old woman lies vulnerably in a hospital bed while Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans.
A younger woman crosses the space in between them and desperately tries to console the
old woman. The old woman was ready and waiting to cease. A short recollection of a familiar
story swiftly appears before her consciousness. A visually impaired watchmaker in New Orleans
has a son who has been deployed on the battlefield. When his son left, all he did was work on
the town's most prominent watch. After four short months, a letter arrived proclaiming
their son died in the war. The watchmaker mourned so much that he decided to reverse-engineer
the town's watch to commemorate all the lives lost in the war. He wished that he could turn
back the time to keep their children alive, and their sons would come back home one day.
The whole town remembered the clock as the watchmaker's parting gift as he was never
seen again. The old woman, Daisy, asks the younger woman Karoline to pick up a book from
her suitcase. She asks her to open the book and read through the pages. Karoline sees
several memorabilia attached to the diary. Karoline reads a last will and testament.
The testament leaves no possessions of wealth but revelations to Karoline as far as a man
names Benjamin can remember. When the war was announced to have ended, the families
of the dead soldiers mourned. But the war is a two-faced traitor being celebrated by
the rest of the people in New Orleans. A man sprints nervously in the middle of the rejoicing
crowd towards his house. He comes home to her dying wife after giving birth. The ill
woman asks him to promise her to show love and affection to her child before she bids
him farewell. Thomas steps towards the crib, leans over the crying little creature, almost
vomiting on sight. He jerkily carries him and runs the house outwards. He takes him
to drown alive in the lake just a mile away from home, but a guard shouts over and runs
after him. The guard loses sight of Thomas as he hides in a short alley. He inserts a
piece of cloth into the child's swaddle and leaves him in the stairs of a well-lit house
just behind the alley. A couple is sweetly talking outside the house,
but an old lady interrupts their moment. The woman follows the old lady back inside the
house, but the man drags her and mindlessly takes small steps down the stairs. The man
could have crashed the tiny, swaddled boy in the stairs if he has not immediately lifted
his foot and skipped. The woman opens up the swaddle, revealing the oddest baby the two
have ever seen. The couple gasps in horror and amusement. The man persuades her to leave
the baby alone, but the woman picks him up and carries him inside the house. She keeps
him in her drawers in her room and assists the aged people in the shelter. She comes
in contact with the doctor, who she calls along to her room. The doctor diagnoses that
the boy was blind from cataracts, deaf, has ossified hands and feet and is also suffering
from Arthritis. The doctor declares that he was not a newborn but an old man deteriorating
to the grave. Queenie feels necessarily pitiful that she wants to keep him, but the doctor
warns her that not everyone is meant to survive. Queenie carefully takes the baby to the shelter
where the aged people gather and names the little boy Benjamin. Benjamin finds a home
as Queenie raises him in the shelter. Growing up, Benjamin lived the first few years of
his life thinking he was also in his twilight years, just like the people in the shelter.
He was the playful old man who can only move his limbs with a wheelchair. Queenie stands
by him as he aged into youth. One night, Queenie takes Benjamin to a faith
healer. She asks to be prayed over to start bearing a child and clear Benjamin from what
she called "The Devil's Curse". The healer asks him to rise from his wheelchair, but
Benjamin falls down. He manages to rise again and takes little steps. The healer collapses
and dies in rejoice at Benjamin's victory that night. The shelter has regular visits
from birthdays and deaths, and Benjamin witnesses how people come and go, leaving him wondering
why death hasn't taken him yet. Benjamin becomes acquainted with a pygmy man who takes him
to train trips and parks.The pygmy man leaves him alone in crutches, where Benjamin spends
the whole night walking himself home. Benjamin thought it was one of the best days of his
life. On Sundays, the families of the aged people
visit the shelter for thanksgiving. One of the elderly women introduces Benjamin to her
granddaughter, Daisy, an adorable auburn girl with blue eyes. He falls in love the moment
he met Daisy. After serving the thanksgiving lunch, Queenie announces that she is going
to have a baby. While Benjamin is dealing with the news, Daisy starts opening up and
playing to Benjamin. One night, the two light up a candle under a bed down the basement
and reveal secrets to each other. Benjamin admits that he was not as old as he looked,
and Daisy believes he was different from the others. Daisy's grandmother catches and scolds
the two of them for misbehaving. When Daisy left, Benjamin gets back to getting acquainted
with older people. One lady teaches him how to play the piano. As time goes by, Benjamin
notices more changes taking place in his body. One day, he visits a port with another old
man and is hired to work in the boat. The work in the sea excites the odd Benjamin.
He grows close to Captain Mike, who eventually discovers that he was still a virgin. Captain
Mike takes Benjamin to a brothel where they have a dose of liquors, sentiments and women.
Despite Benjamin's odd and peculiar appearance, a prostitute eagerly takes him but becomes
flabbergasted when Benjamin does not run out of sexual vigour. He became her sole guest.
While going home from the brothel, a car stops by Benjamin on the sidewalk. He invites Benjamin
to the car and introduces himself as Thomas Button. The two heads to a luxurious bar and
talks about Benjamin's disease. Later that night, Thomas takes him home and
asks him if he could pay a visit time after time. Daisy comes by another thanksgiving
day and spends the day with Daisy in the tugboat. Captain Mike revs the boat to life as Benjamin
wishes. Benjamin's old lady friend dies one day. There, he comes to an epiphany that his
life passes by differently than anyone else in the shelter. He lovingly bids farewell
to her parents and the shelter, who wish him safety and happiness in turn. Benjamin promises
to write Daisy a postcard from wherever he lands. His life in the sea was long and agonizing,
but Daisy makes sure to send a letter back after every postcard. Meanwhile, Daisy advances
to be a professional ballet dancer. Benjamin and his crew stop by brothels and bars whenever
they dock on land. On one trip, Benjamin pays for a hotel room where he meets Elizabeth
and her husband Walter, who happens to be a spy.
One night when he had trouble dozing off, he gets acquainted with Elizabeth. They find
solace with each other countless nights, meeting at the hotel lobby every night when he couldn't
sleep and when she doesn't have her husband around her. Benjamin falls in love with the
married Elizabeth. Benjamin admits the unfortunate news to Daisy. Even though Daisy is making
significant progress with her career, the news broke her heart. Benjamin spends many
nights with Elizabeth, where he consciencelessly ends up making love to her. Their affair is
too good to be true until one night, Elizabeth no longer meets him in the lobby of their
own little world. Benjamin learns to deal with losing Elizabeth when the war starts
to break out back in the sea. The crew is preparing for salvage, but their tugboat has
been caught in between the military distress. The opponents kill their captain and some
of the crew, and the tugboat crashes in despair. Benjamin is, fortunately, alive and bids goodbye
to the friendships who died along with the tugboat.
Benjamin comes back home to the shelter where he sees the happy old Queenie. Despite the
sorrow on the sea and the death in the shelter, both of them are immensely grateful and apologetic
at the same time.
One lonely morning, Daisy visits the shelter. Daisy hugs Benjamin, but Benjamin dwells that
Daisy was just a girl when he left, but a beautiful woman had taken her place when he
came back. Daisy and Benjamin head out for a night to reconnect, and Benjamin finds himself
falling in love with a gracefully dancing Daisy, who kisses and seduces him before the
night ends. She goes home disappointed as Benjamin adamantly rejects her. The following
night, an old friend Thomas passes by the shelter and takes Benjamin for a dinner where
he admits his affection for Benjamin as a company. He takes Benjamin to the button factory,
where he reveals that Benjamin is his son. He tours her around his house and introduces
an old picture of Benjamin's mother, Karoline. Benjamin leaves Thomas' house confused and
pained. Later, he comes back to the Button's mansion and picks him up for an early trip
to the lake, where Thomas lets go of his life. Benjamin heads to New York for Daisy's show.
He once again falls in love with the graceful Daisy onstage. After the show, he pays her
a backstage visit. Benjamin becomes jealous and leaves the afterparty when a friend kisses
Daisy squarely on the lips. She chases after her but ends up leaving too after hearing
that Benjamin felt happy for her boyfriend. Benjamin spends his days touring with his
motorcycle and repairing things in the shelter. One day, he receives a sad letter and heads
to a hospital in Paris. Daisy is suffering from multiple injuries after being hit by
a taxi days ago. Benjamin wants to take her home, but Daisy asks him to stay out of her
life. The broken Benjamin dealt with the agony through countless one-night stands. Daisy
reconnects with Benjamin one day where they end up making love that night. The two spend
their years passionately making love at different places in different weather. Eventually, Benjamin's
disease starts complicating their relationships. Daisy worries that Benjamin will wake up to
an old lady one day, but she shrugs it off, knowing he loved him enough. The news of Queenie's
death break Benjamin and Daisy but moves on after time. Benjamin sells his father's mansion
to live his years with Daisy in their own duplex. The loss of youth cause Daisy great
pain, but she promises Benjamin to accept ageing as it is. Daisy opens up her own ballet
class and reveals that she is carrying Benjamin's child. Benjamin grows excessively worried
that the baby might end up like him or he might not be able to father the baby at all.
Daisy eases him off by promising that she will make things work for their family.
9 months later, Daisy triumphantly gives birth to their first child and names the child after
his mother, Karoline. Karoline becomes angry after the diary's revelation but continued
reading through the pages. The gravity of Benjamin's disease started to show when he
realized that their child needs a father and not a playmate. Even though he loved his wife
and daughter, he decides to leave them with all his inheritances to live in the direction
his disease is taking him. Karoline reads all the notes of regrets in the postcards
her father has sent throughout her life. Benjamin spent the rest of his life in vain in different
places. One day, the teen-looking Benjamin decides to see Karoline and Daisy, but he
discovers that she remarried the man who fathered Karoline. Daisy and Benjamin spent their last
passionate night together at a hotel. The years went through without seeing each other.
But a man called Daisy to hand out his diary. In his early years, Benjamin is playing a
familiar tune on the piano, suffering from dementia. The old Daisy takes care of the
demented young Benjamin until the government of Louisiana replaced the town's watch. Oddly
enough, his forgetful and agonizing years came to an end. The hurricane completely broke
out of New Orleans when Karoline finished reading the diary. When the city was flooded,
the story of Benjamin and the reverse-engineered watch have ended.
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