Cleverly woven into the movie are events, things and characters of no seeming import. The clock and its maker, the war, the hummingbird, the captain......
By the time you realise the enormosity of it all of their place in the show in retrospect, you might have sucked in a big lump of air in sheer marvel and only to expirate these air with a gasp of WOW.
More than just curiosity and it certain does not kill the cat, three-legged or otherwise, the movie was deeply invoking. Despite the straightforward storyline of Benjamin being born old and then grow younger as he ages, he is nonetheless not immune to dealing with internal conflicts that are so familiar to the audience. The fact that he is aging backwards makes the confronting of all these dilemmas even all the more pronounced – of seeing loved ones aging and passing on, of responsibilities constantly shifting as the years wear on, of second-guessing what the other woman might be thinking, of listening into his own world what it means by sacrifice. Not that he would have been spared all these had his aging not been reversed. At the very least, it won't be of a greater magnitude than what we would normally experience.
At the end of the show, the audience clapped. What else would you have expected anyway, from this wonderful Case of Benjamin Button.
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