The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button !!install!! [WORKING — Release]

In Fitzgerald’s version, Benjamin is born a 70-year-old man and is immediately rejected by his horrified father, a button magnate in Baltimore. The tone is farcical. Benjamin attempts to attend kindergarten with a long gray beard; he tries to enlist in the Spanish-American War despite being physically youthful but chronologically too old. The story focuses on the friction between biological age and societal expectation. It is a commentary on how rigidly we structure our lives—going to college at 18, retiring at 65—and how ill-fitting these structures can be for the individual spirit.

Whether you prefer the book or the movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button endures because it touches a universal nerve. We are all, in our own way, living backward. We spend our youth wishing we were older, and our old age wishing we were younger. Benjamin Button is the tragic hero who gets exactly what we ask for—and pays the price. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button