Sunday, February 8, 2009

The curious case of Benjamin Button

Sometimes life knocks you up with things you can not imagine, somethings that could set you thinking. similarly, this is what i encountered when i had my first glance at the award winning movie" the curious case of benjamin button".
Fiction plays a crucial role in everyone's life, but F.Scott Fitzgerald carried it to another level. After been written in the form of a novel, this sentimental story has ended up on screen. This everlasting movie deals and resembles about a man during World war-I, who was born young but with the appearence and characteristics of an old man. On the day that the Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams is on her deathbed. This is when she asks her daughter, Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend Benjamin Button. This diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the main unusual aspect of which was his agening backwards. He was born as an old man in his eighties, diagnosed of several serious agening diseases, thus showing his little chances of surviving. But he survives and becomes younger as time passes. After being abandoned by his biological father Thomas Button and death of his mother during childbirth he was fortunately adopted and raised by Queenie, an afro-american lady who served as a caregiver at senior home. The movie exquisitely shows how Daisy and Benjamin seperated as time passed but still remained in touch and their reconnection during their fourties when their ages finally matched; and as Daisy grew older, Benjamin got younger.
Everone who reads this blog has been born under normal circumstances as an ordinary individual; however this is a story of an exceptional man who is born under unusual circumstances and lives a life completely opposite to ours. When he was seven he looked sixty and when he was sixty he looked seven.
By showing the personal identity of the main character i.e. Benjamin Button around whom the whole story revolves this movie has covered one of the essential levels of context i.e. life script.
The entire message of this movie has been given in the form of verbal and visual communication. As we all know that " language must always match context" and better the communicators understand the contextual cues more successful they are in conveying the exact message. I strongly feel by the script of this movie and the semantics i.e. the meaning of the words used in this movie the public has been able to interpret its correct message.

2 comments:

  1. Indeed, reverse ageing is the height of drama and a memorable story.

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  2. A very well directed story though unbelivable as it is truly fiction with no reality.

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