Benjamin Button Symbolism

The story begins with a close up of an extremely elderly woman (Daisy) lying on her deathbed in a hospital. At her bedside is her daughter that has come to say her last goodbyes. Daisy fondly muses over a blind clockmaker, who built an extraordinary clock for Grand Central Station in New York. While this clock is being built, the clockmaker’s only begotten son is dispatched to fight in the war, and ultimately dies in battle. Even though the clockmaker is stricken with severe grief, nevertheless, he continued to construct the clock. Upon completing the construction of this glorious clock, the clock became a public spectacle. In the film, Daisy said “it was a morning to remember.” After the clock was unveiled, the second hand astonishingly ticks

Therefore, the symbolism of the clock is open for individual interpretation to the films’ viewers. Perhaps, there is irony in the fact that after the clock was built then unveiled, not too far away in another state; an unusual child was born simultaneously. The mother of this child, shortly thereafter giving birth, dies unexpectedly. The father then cradles his child, and removes the blanket to see his sons face for the first time. The father bellows in absolute repulsion, after he realizes his son is an octogenarian infant. As a result, the father scurries away with his son in disgust, and contemplates throwing this child of oddity into the river. Instead he opts to leave his child on the steps of a very large home after hearing people inside the home, and leaves whatever money he had with the baby. An African-American couple walks out onto the porch, and notices the abandoned child. The woman (Queenie), whom is barren, decides that she would adopt responsibility for this child of god, and raises him as her own. She names this child Benjamin. In conclusion, the viewer is left to ponder the symbolism: perhaps, when the clock began ticking backwards, at the same time, so has Benjamin’s

For instance, his transformation; from a frail, bald old man, to a progressively, physically fit, strapping young lad. The film introduces the viewers to a stunning, charming red-haired girl named Daisy. Benjamin instantly, cultivates a boyish crush on the young Daisy, although Benjamin is still an elderly man at this juncture. Benjamin fondly recalls this being the day that he fell in love with her. Benjamin and Daisy, rapidly develop a lifelong relationship together. Over the course of the film, Benjamin takes a job as a deckhand on a tugboat. Benjamin has coerced the captain to take Benjamin and Daisy out to sea, where Daisy makes Benjamin promise; to "write to her wherever he travels." Upon one of Benjamin’s many travels in the film; He meets an unhappily married woman named Elizabeth, at the hotel where Benjamin resides. They inevitably end up for nightly rendezvous’; As a result, Elizabeth introduces Benjamin to the finer things in life, for instance, engaging conversation, fine dining with caviar and expensive liquors. In due course, the viewers watch as those rendezvous’ lead to a blossoming affair between Benjamin and Elizabeth. Benjamin hastily writes Daisy, telling her that he has fallen in love with another woman. The, one night, Elizabeth disappears unbeknownst to Benjamin, leaving behind only a simple note saying it was nice to