Brad pitt wiki biography of benjamin

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a splendidly made film based on a profoundly mistaken premise. It tells the story of a man who is old when he is born and an infant when he dies.

All those around him, everyone he knows and loves, grow older in the usual way, and he passes them on the way down. As I watched the film, I became consumed by a conviction that this was simply wrong.

Let me paraphrase the oldest story I know: In the beginning, there was nothing, and then God said, “Let there be light.” Everything comes after the beginning, and we all seem to share this awareness of the direction of time’s arrow.

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There is a famous line by e.e. cummings that might seem to apply to Benjamin Button: and down he forgot as up he grew. But no, it involves the process of forgetting our youth as we grow older.

We begin a movie or novel and assume it will tell a story in chronological time.

Flashbacks and flash-forwards, we understand. If it moves backwa