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Medically& aesthetically stunning movie “The Curious case of Benjamin”

-  Reverse life cycle

The movie “The curious case of Benjamin Button” is a mind-blowing as well as mind-boggling film and has stunned me over and again because of a case of reverse ageing of a man called Benjamin Button, based upon a short story by the same name by American novelist and film writer Eric Rothand Robin Swicord.

The Benjamin Button isplayed by Hollywood super star Brad Pitt and his love interest by Cate Blanchett. But one more female character mama ( mother) will fascinate you and she is Taraji P. Henson oozes her motherly care for a newly born boy Benjamin who looks so ugly, so old that no one can think of bringing up because his own father abandons him and leaves on the porch of a nursing home where this unfortunate boy Benjamin finds his mama who announces in nursing house that she will care him as son.
The boy Benjamin( seven years old) looks an 80-90 years old man, sitting with old men and old women of Nursing home.As he grows, his skin tone is changing and his oldness gradually sags down and mama cares him with love and affection. Benjamin gets job on a navy boat and goes on sea-voyage with captain who asks him about his sex life with woman and Benjamin ( 50-55 years lookalike) says straight to him no..so far he has not enjoyed sex with any woman, surprises captain and he takes him for sexual fun. During this voyage, he stays a city hotel where he meets frustrated wife of London Minister and both enjoys.Benjamin writes diary and he writes letter to his childhood friend Daisy(Cate Blanchett).

In December,1941 Japan wages war against Pearl Haror, thrusting America into second world war.Benjamin and his captain alonwith others on boat are assigned to salvage the duties but Benjamin survives and comes back to nursing home and stays with Mama.

Benjamin grows and transforms into a handsome youth and starts living with his love interest Daisy who runs a dance school after leg-fracture in a road accident.Anormal baby girl is born but Benjamin is afraid that he should not be her father because of her “REVERSE AGEING”

Benjamin sells his father’s property and gives it to Daisy and his daughter Caroline who is reading his father’s diary in front of her dying mother in a hospital and Caroline is stunned to know that she is a daughter of Mr. Benjamin who lives alone with his diary in an abandoned house .A social worker takes child Benjamin( 12-13 years) to his mama’s nursing home where he is recognized by old lady Daisy only when Benjamin plays Piano.
After few years,Benjamin transforms a baby boy who is in the lap of Daisy who is his wife. Daisy sees Benjamin’s last eye-lid to close.
Daisy tells the further life of Benjamin to her daughter Caroline in hospital and she also dies.
The film is aesthetically made and all human emotions are dabbling and film has received three Oscar awards.

Note : 1.This is a unique film based upon Reverse ageing. My curiosity is to know if it really happens. My medical doctor or any one who is aware of medical science, can quench my thrust of it. Or is it an act of fiction?
2.The film progresses with real changes in body with age and it does not involve any supernatural power.
3.The sequence of 8 images suggests the case of reverse ageing of Benjamin.