This quote inspired writer FitzGerald to create a short story, Benjamin? The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
This novel in turn inspired director David Fincher, who created the fantasy romance movie, The Return of the Old Man.
New Orleans, in the southern United States, is ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. In a hospital, the dying Daisy (Cate Blanchett) gives a memoir to her daughter Caroline (Julia Ormond). The owner of the memoir is a man named Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt). In 1918, World War I comes to a close. On the day of Europe's victory, a baby boy croaks in a New Orleans home with the last name of Patton. Little Barton was born, it seems to be different: the mother died in childbirth, the doctor who delivered the baby was scared to death, and the father was even more cruel to the newborn baby abandoned to the door of the old people's home, when the old people's home of the black lady found the little Barton, she was equally scared - in front of the eyes of this young baby is actually a lifetime is a full of white hair, a face of wrinkles of the old and thin old man.
However, the kind aunt did not dislike this abandoned baby. She took Benjamin in and took good care of him. In a remote old people's home, Benjamin, who looks like an 80-year-old man, does not stand out.
So, year after year, he grew up happily. Strangely enough, Benjamin's biological clock seems to go backwards, and while others are getting older, he is getting younger. That is, until one day when the twelve-year-old meets Daisy (Elle Fanning), a six-year-old girl visiting her grandmother. When Benjamin meets the second woman who will change his life forever, her loveliness and innocence conquers the heart of Barton, the "old man". And Barton's equally sincere, clear heart also touched the little Daisy, the love between the two began to bud.
A decade later, the flames of the Second World War burned more fiercely across the world. In the midst of the turmoil, Benjamin Button, like many Americans, traveled by ship from the United States to England to contribute to the anti-fascist war. During this time, he meets a variety of characters, witnesses the true tragedy of life, but also experiences the greatest glory of humanity. During this time, he meets Elizabeth Abbott (Tilda Swinton) and has a brief affair, while the other man is married and soon leaves. After the end of World War II, Benjamin returns to the United States. By this time, he has shed his old childhood looks and is growing into middle age. And, as fate would have it, he was reunited with his childhood dream girl, Daisy, in New York City.
They had a daughter, but Benjamin was destined to stay young and eventually become a child, he felt that he could not accompany the child to grow up, and chose to leave. A few years later Benjamin returns from India to find Daisy married to a widower, and seeing that they get along well, Benjamin is relieved and at the same time a little sad. He is getting older and smaller and has developed "childhood dementia". The orphanage workers found Daisy through his diary. By now Benjamin had forgotten everything and was becoming more and more like a child. Daisy visited him every day and stayed with him for the rest of his life.
Daisy said, "At that moment, he recognized me and remembered everything."
The cycle of time goes on week after week, telling us that life, no matter what form it begins in, is ultimately a journey to the end of death, albeit a brief intersection, but as Daisy says, there are some things that are unchanging and worthy of a lifetime's remembrance, such as love.
Their love goes through the cycle of life, through the retrograde time, even if it is only a brief encounter, bursting with power enough to move the heart.
Even though the beautiful face will pass away, the memory of youth will decay, in the river of time, only love, remember a lifetime, never change.
In the ending of the movie, the water gradually rises, roaming over the clock that goes backwards, belonging to Benjamin and Daisy's story, this is the end of the story, belonging to other people's story, perhaps just stepped on the track, but no matter what, as the caregiver Queenie said, all people will be heading towards the same end, just the scenery on the road is different.
"Some people are born to sit by the river, some people get struck by lightning, some people understand music, some people are artists, some people can swim, some people are good with buttons, some people know Shakespeare, some people are born to be mothers, and some people love to dance."
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