The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the story of a life. A simple life, where some fantastic success eventually outweigh the pain, suffering, injustice. Benjamin Button, son of a tailor in New Orleans comes to the world the night of November 11, 1918. He was born ugly, ill-trained members, his face disfigured. His father having thought he is a monster laid him next the door of a home for old people. The irony will be that this little child is in his element among the olds since he was born too old. So we will see him in the film with white hair when he was just 7, in a wheelchair as a 90 year old, wrinkled, bald, stiff limbs and amorphous. In his case, growth is in reverse. Gradually as the years pass, Benjamin Button becomes youngest, muscle grows. At age seventeen, he is a little old man who has known love, because he fell in love with a girl of his age, and who works aboard a tugboat. He left the hospital to go and make his life travelling the world. Far from home, he will meet women who loved him, friends to turn to. But one thing he lacks horribly: a woman who can love him with all her heart and live her life with him. Returning to New Orleans, he meets Daisy again that girl he fell in love with when he was little. They will marry and have a child who is normal. However, Benjamin Button, anticipating that he will die young child in his diapers, will leave his wife for his daughter not to know him. He died in the hospital where he grew up like he was a little baby.
This upside down life is a metaphor. We never saw a man who is born old, as we never saw a baby of 80 years old. This metaphor refers to the difference. Benjamin Button is born different but he also has to live his life like any other man. The apparent difference, flagrant, should not be a problem in a state of law. It is natural; we accept it and live with it. Unlike a Quasimodo who is born different and who is rejected, Benjamin Button is accepted by everyone. He never have been hungry, he never have been relegated to be a second class citizen. This proves that the United States of America is a state of rights, where democracy is rooted in the values and customs of each of its citizens. Benjamin Button could never live the life he lived in a country where appearances are deceptive, and where the prevailing taboos are commonplace. He should have been born in the USA for his unconventional life be accepted by everyone. It is also to be noted as people fought for the fate of Benjamin Button. They have given him his share of the pie, they have shared with him, they have found him a woman he can love. Those who loved Benjamin Button instead of slandering him are people of heart. They are saints deserving paradise. For his part, Benjamin Button will always react with normality. This normality has earned him a life full, fair, where he eventually won. This means that life wants us to be normal, and there is no need to worry if things are done well or ill, we just have to be normal for things to befall.

Tags & Keywords : injustice, fate, democracy, equality