Reflections on the movie "Rejuvenation"
The only movie that made me cry in 2008 had a strange beginning and was destined to have a strange ending. A magical story that composes an extraordinary life.
A nursing home frequently visited by the God of Death, as dead as a womb, has become the spiritual home of Benjamin Button, interpreting the calmness and poetry of life and death.
A surging youthful passion, a life of a crew living all over the world, wrote down absurd stories that are natural and calm, leaving behind irreparable regrets in life.
A young and lively girl connected with the spirit of the legendary old child, made a lifelong vow, and performed an epic story of true love that involves life and death, and a thousand twists and turns.
Love that touches the soul always makes the viewer emotional, but a love that is destined to be irreplaceable is the most poignant swan song in the world. "Returning to Youth" is a story that intersects time and space, a memory of a dying person's life, a calm reading, a long and ups and downs narrative that has gone through many vicissitudes of life, which made me smell the desolation of life, the impermanence of life and death, and love. The helplessness.
Whether it’s the big clock with its hands turning backwards, the coming storm, the unexpected war, or the 68-year-old former lover crossing the English Channel, the captain who calls himself a tattoo artist, every day in order to survive. A hummingbird that flaps its wings eighty times per second? It’s like the bright pearls connecting life into an extremely gorgeous necklace. It constitutes countless intersections that are profound in our minds and hearts. Among these countless intersections, each of us is destined to have only one that we cannot let go of calmly. That is Benjamin's dense diary filled with life, and it is also the last summary of life and emotional reminiscence completed by Daisy in her hospital bed.
A sailor and a dancer, two completely different and opposite life trajectories, completed the most flawless encounter in the nursing home where death was rampant. After Daisy was unable to dance in a car accident, they completed the meeting. A fleeting encounter. And at that glimpse of the intersection of life, two souls ignited the most splendid fire in a bleak life like sparks rubbing against phosphorous paper.
The fire was short and weak, making people unable to bear to breathe or touch. It was tightly wrapped by two happy hearts in the beautiful and tranquil harbor of Florida, but they still could not escape the fire that had been waiting quietly behind them. Fate. Benjamin, who is well-versed in world affairs, finally chose to leave all his property before his daughter remembered him, left alone, and chose to live a wandering life, because he knew that his daughter needed more than just a playmate, and Daisy could not take care of two "children."
In the last mile of his life, Benjamin, a boy in his seventies and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, had forgotten his past and present lives, and his eternal love with Daisy. The police sent him back to the nursing home where everything had changed. He leaned on the piano and cast a familiar glance behind him. Benjamin, who lost himself and his necklace, suffered from amnesia day and night, and was finally adopted by Daisy, who lost her husband, until he turned into a baby who couldn't speak.
Benjamin ended his unique life in his infancy, in the arms of his lover Daisy.
At the last moment of his life, he stared at the grandmother-like old woman in front of him for a long time with his child-like inquiring eyes, and finally closed his eyes gently. Daisy says she knows and Benjamin recognizes who she is.
Let the body leave and leave the heart here.
Good night, Benjamin; Good night, Daisy?
In the darkness, the calm and long ending song sounded, which suddenly woke me up from my trance as if my fingers were burned by a match. Long after the film ended, my life would soon return to normal just like the clock in the town's train station that had been turned upside down for 85 years was replaced. However, my heart was clearly broken by the love that Benjamin and Daisy would never have. The burning pain of extinguished love, the whole dull painful burning spot, is like the white spots left after a flash of sparks in the dark, both real and illusory, it makes me lose my mind.
I suddenly felt that the corners of my eyes were moist, and my whole body was weightless in the sour void.
My thoughts after watching the movie "Rejuvenation"
I have heard about the movie "Rejuvenation" a long time ago, but for many reasons I have never had the chance to watch it. My mood has been particularly bad these past few days, and there is always an inexplicable depression tumbling in my heart. It may be due to personality. Even if you are in a bad mood, you will not show it externally. Watching movies, listening to music, and doing exercises will somewhat balance the inner fluctuations. In the evening, I watched the movie "Rejuvenation" with an uneasy mood. The film uses the content of a diary as a carrier to tell us about Benjamin's unusual life. There are no ups and downs of the plot, everything is plain and natural, giving people an unusually calm feeling.
In fact, before watching it, I thought the plot was absurd, but after watching it, it still gave people a real and natural feeling. Sometimes things that are completely contrary to the facts can shock and move people several times more than normal things. Age is an unchangeable natural law, and it is indeed possible for the body and appearance to change from old to young. When browsing the news today, I saw a report like this: A young man of about the same age has a face full of wrinkles, and his appearance looks like Like an octogenarian. These real news are happening around us. The film is just exaggerated. It seems a bit inappropriate to call it absurd.
Slowly becoming younger and younger is actually sad, because you have to bear the slow aging and even death of the people you love. The progression of human life from youth to old age is a natural law, and anyone who violates it will suffer the consequences. Although violating the laws of nature may be God's malicious intention, it must be endured by the individual life. Benjamin's birth resulted in the death of his mother, and his entry into the world brought grief and abandonment from his loved ones. The phenomenon of strange life is accepted in charitable institutions, where there are all kinds of strange people, but each individual is a life given by God. Although God has been negligent when giving life, it should still be cherished and caring. In such a large environment, harmony and care filled the entire space, and Benjamin grew up naturally like a normal child.
Such a counter-life is actually the same as the life course that the public has, having those beautiful years of youth, the only difference is that the appearance and age are opposite. In fact, modern people seem to have a similar life course trend, but it is not so exaggerated. Today, a complicated society is filled with various cultures, and the rapid spread of information is undoubtedly accelerating people's growth. Modern people grow at twice or even twice the normal rate. The sadness on the children's faces makes people feel as if they have endured too many years of hardships. The mentality of the elderly chasing youth makes people see the vitality of life. Children mature prematurely, young people age before they grow old, and the elderly rejuvenate. Isn’t this a reversal of life?
After watching the two-hour film patiently, I felt restless. Calm down. A person's life course is condensed into just two hours, which includes family, love, and friendship that exist in life. The length of the film reflects the brevity of life. Human life is only a few decades. In every period of time, there are expected and arranged things waiting for us to do. Stopping and looking back at the past, everything seems to be an arrangement and coincidence. There is a saying that destiny is in your own hands and you can change your destiny through your own efforts. But things will happen as scheduled when we try hard to change them. Although we can be happy to think that we have worked hard and have changed, in the eyes of God we are lovable.
People who live and obey the destiny without any struggle will actually be very happy, because God is merciful. But people always want to desperately overturn everything God has arranged for us, trying to realize their ideas through personal efforts alone. The bitterness and pain, gains and joys throughout the process of life run through the process of life. At the moment when life ends, there will be no regrets and no regrets, and it will not be a waste of time. This may be life.
Comments after watching the fantasy movie Rejuvenation
1234567? We can count them. 7654321? Of course we can also count backwards. However, time has its own rules. If the rules cannot be changed artificially, the person who goes against time is destined to be lonely.
The youth hidden behind aging, its late arrival, brings too much regret and sorrow.
He came into the world with an aging face, was abandoned by his biological father, had no playmates in his childhood, and then lived a life of reverse growth that was different from ordinary people. Destiny offers him a different kind of trip, and at first he accepts it without snarling like a mad dog. Gradually, he realized the helplessness of this kind of life. In the end, he could only let go gently and died like a baby in his swaddling clothes.
"Going home is a novel thing for me. Everything around me looks the same, smells the same, and feels the same. You realize that the only thing that has really changed is yourself." Everyone When lamenting that time is a common trick of changing things and changing people, his sigh has another meaning: the people around him are getting older and leaving one by one, but he is becoming younger and younger. This is like being cruelly sentenced to life imprisonment and spending your whole life rubbing shoulders with different people.
It was not that he chose a path that ran counter to the rules of time, but that time betrayed him. He had to bear all the loneliness that occurred during the journey alone. For him, nothing existed forever. People who move in different directions of time will be separated no matter what. Even the most beautiful and lasting love can only intersect where two people's time happens to intersect. After that brief moment, even if love still retains its residual heat, it can only give up reluctantly with forbearance that is not strong and strong.
"No matter whether it is too late or too early for me, it will not stop you from becoming the person you want to be. This process has no time limit. You can do it anytime you want. Go ahead. It doesn't matter if you want to change or stay the same, things are not meant to be limited, we can do it well and we can screw it up, but I hope that in the end you become who you want to be. To be able to stop in this world that amazes you and experience feelings you have never experienced before. I hope you can meet other people who have different opinions from yours. I hope you can have a life worth being proud of if it is just like what you imagined. Life is different, I hope you can have the courage to start anew." The motto that the father should have let his daughter understand through practice was finally condensed into one sentence and was silently preserved for so many years.
Two people who were originally in the same field of love ended up becoming an old man and a child. The last days became stranger day by day, the memory of the previous life was completely lost, and the ability to speak and walk gradually degraded to that of a baby. "He looked at me and I knew he must know who I was. Then he closed his eyes, like he was asleep."
"Some people grow up right next to the river, Some have been struck by lightning, some have an extraordinary talent for music, some are artists, some swim, some know buttons, some know Shakespeare, and some are mothers, and some can dance.” There is no mention of this violator of time rules, who is indeed alone.
Maybe fate should never be blamed, even if it sometimes has the destructive power of the New Orleans hurricane.
Thoughts after watching the fantasy movie Rejuvenation
Someone will always accompany you in your life and fully accept your aging. Fighting for time is also a waste of time, and it is inevitable to *** Running to the same destination together.
When the countercurrent of time caresses the frivolous life, the pendulum that reverses in the opposite direction can almost complete a complete cycle.
This is the strange thing about Mr. Benjamin Button, his life is reversed.
Benjamin’s retrograde life has no impact on others, but for Daisy,
It is special, wonderful, inescapable, painful, and happy. everything.
That year, Daisy was 5 years old and Benjamin was 11 years old. Daisy was a child who had just become obsessed with dancing, and Benjamin was an old man who had just been able to get out of his wheelchair. They both had infinite unknowns about life. As Queenie said, "You never know what's going to happen next.
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"What if I told you that I am not getting older, but getting younger than others?
In that case, I feel bad for you, and you have to It's really a big responsibility to experience everyone who loves you die before you.
I have never thought about life and death in this way.
Benjamin, we are destined to lose the people we love, otherwise how would we know how important they are to us. ”
Daisy is 23 years old, the best age in a girl’s life. She is an excellent ballet dancer. She is as proud and stubborn as a scarlet-like American southern woman, and she misses all the sensual, sensual and boastful male voices. She is a womanizer and cannot understand the deep love of old man Benjamin.
"Sometimes we live in the orbit of an impending collision without knowing it. Whether it happened accidentally or was planned, there is nothing we can do about it. "
Daisy's accidental car accident, Benjamin came to Paris,
"I?ll take you home with me."
Daisy did not follow him, it was cold. She refused just because she didn't want him to see her in an awkward state.
Until she resumed walking with love as her faith, she returned to New Orleans and began the best time of her life. /p>
He took her out to sea, along the coast of Florida, to watch rocket launches, have sex on a boat, or jump into the water for a swim.
He sold the century-old house and bought a brand new one. On the second floor of the house, he and Daisy lived a life of forgetting time, eating when they wanted to, and staying awake all night when they didn't want to sleep. They gradually grew from a mattress to a home with a refrigerator and hanging paintings.
I will enjoy each every moment I have.
Until I have my daughter.
Benjamin wants to give them a normal home. He doesn’t want Daisy to raise two children in ten years. , he was also afraid of affecting his daughter's normal growth, so he sold all his inheritance and left the money to the mother and daughter, so he went wandering.
"You can be as angry as a mad dog about everything around you. No, you can curse the fate...but when it comes to the last moment...you still have to calmly let go. ”
“No matter whether it’s too late or, for me, too early, it won’t stop you from becoming the person you want to be.” There is no time limit for this process, you can start it anytime you want. It doesn't matter if you want to change it or keep it as it is, there should be no constraints on what you do. We can do it well and we can screw it up, but I hope in the end you become the person you want to be. I hope you can sometimes stop in this world that amazes you and experience feelings you have never experienced before. I hope you can meet other people who have different perspectives from yours. I hope you can have a life worth being proud of. If life is different from what you imagined, I hope you will have the courage to start over. "This is what he wrote to his daughter.
When he saw Daisy again, he said, I never stopped loving you.
In the end, Benjamin had to return to his child because he could not bear so much. He became a child again, leaving only a notebook with Daisy's name engraved on the lock.
Benjamin returned to his 5-year-old self. In 2000, Daisy lived with him again and read to him, the book that Daisy's grandmother read to her and the old man Benjamin when she was 5 years old.
After experiencing too many funerals in the film, Benjamin looked at the people around him. People grow old and leave, but he miraculously regains his youth, until one day he doesn't want to be young anymore, for fear that he will leave his lover and his children.
Life is a luxury for the two of them. I think that although they cannot walk together in the same pace of life in the ordinary way, they can enjoy each other so much in the intertwined time and space. The love of a lifetime, even if it has to bear the pain so painfully,
God may be fair. In deep love, there are always too many tests mixed in.
Thoughts after watching the fantasy movie Rejuvenation
I think most people still prefer a happy ending to a tragedy, so it is not difficult to understand that the Oscar judges favor Slumdog Millionaire more Better than The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (although objectively speaking, the former is not exactly the finale.) So the former swept this year's Oscars, but the latter only took a consolation award (Best Visual Effects).
Indeed, the makeup artist of the latter is so skilled that he can look real, so when you see Brad Pitt transform from a gray-haired old man with a vicissitudes of life on his face to a handsome young man with clear features and handsome features, you will feel When you see Cate Blanchett lying on the hospital bed dying and recalling the past, it won't feel awkward at all. Maybe this is the so-called best vision, haha.
I think I will still be moved by such a movie, in reverse order, in the name of memory. The intertwining sense of time, the slowly moving long slow motion, the seemingly careless but meaningful movie dialogue, no ups and downs of the plot, no thrilling blockbuster scenes, just telling a story gently, such a movie will be slow. Slowly enter your heart.
Rejuvenating one’s youth is the dream of many people, but perhaps most of them just want to become younger, rather than actually reversing their age. Growing against the current is really a terrifying and unbearable weight of life, because you have to watch the people you love around you leave your life one by one.
Benjamin was abandoned by his father as an ominous "monster" when he was born. A kind-hearted black girl adopted him and named him Benjamin. She believed that this was a miracle given to her by God: I'm sure This child is already a miracle here, the kind of miracle some people want to see. He was indeed a miracle. He stood up from his wheelchair under the prayers of the priest. The power of life made him forget the doctor's prediction that he would die soon.
Later he met many people. An old lady whose name he couldn't remember taught him how to play the piano and told him that playing the piano is not about how well you play, but how you feel about what you play. It's really about playing music for yourself.
When Benjamin met Daisy for the first time, she was still an innocent little girl, and he was a wrinkled boy who looked like he was 70 years old. Daisy said, you are different from all the people I have ever met. He replied aggrievedly that I am not as old as I appear. A strange encounter like love at first sight, like a fate bound by fate in a previous life.
He loves her and she loves him. It's just that they are still too young and don't know how to protect love. So we kept meeting and missing each other, just like countless ordinary men and women in the world. He also met different women. The prostitute who made him lose his virginity, the flirtatious lover who was older than him and the swimmer...and she was a natural dancer, enjoying a luxurious life full of endless applause, flowers and honors, enjoying what she thought wishfully The kind of happiness that belongs to her.
The happiest time is the period when their lives overlap most closely. When he and she met again in their late teens, their old love rekindled and got out of hand. He took her on a boat trip along the coastline. They got married and had children. Like every pair of lovers who are inseparable, their happiness is always similar, so they were so easily moved by their love. This is a plot that we seem to have seen before, whether it is a movie. , or life.
In front of the mirror in the dance studio, 49-year-old Benjamin hugged 43-year-old Daisy and said softly, I want to remember what we look like now. At that moment, I really had a feeling of intoxication, because in the future, her skin will become old and saggy, and his face will be covered with acne. They will never be as close as they are now, and time will subvert everything.
So he cruelly abandoned his wife and daughter and left secretly before dawn. He went to India to live alone. He couldn't bear it and couldn't accompany them to their old age.
He waited until his daughter could remember him and left, not wanting her to go through what they had gone through again. What a helpless life this is. Love, but can't be together.
When we meet again, she is already a middle-aged woman with an old appearance, but he is getting younger and younger, becoming a sunny youth. Why do you want to come back? She sighed helplessly. Maybe he just came back to see how they were doing. She had remarried and her life had returned to peace. She introduced him to her husband and daughter as a distant relative. Maybe he really shouldn't come back. He made her fall into the love of her life again. How could she forget him?
Later, the plot was as imagined. As she aged, she had already She became a dignified old woman, and he turned back into a little boy. It's just that he has lost his memory and no longer remembers her appearance, her name, or even their everlasting love.
Later, he died peacefully in her arms as a swaddled baby. I don’t know what they read in that last moment, the moment their eyes met.
She asked her daughter to read his diary in the hospital bed, revealing the secret that had been hidden for decades. When she finished reading, her daughter was already in tears, and she quietly left before the storm came. Human world.
You cannot grow old together with your son if you hold his hand.