Tuesday, February 16, 2010

if all clocks turn anti-clockwise

I had the pleasure of watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, at least, half of it and I must admit, it was not what I had expected. The dwarf actor that portrayed Benjamin in the first half of the movie was incredible. His decipher of his character was thorough and he could easily bested Brad Pitt who is acting the same character in the second half.

The story, so far, is about a baby who was born with wrinkly skin and the life of an 80 year-old man. Sad? You bet. His dad wanted to throw him into the river but somehow he ended up in an old folks home. A kind woman working in the home took him in and showered him with all the love his parents never gave him. When she first held the baby in the living room to introduce it to the old folks, one of the women commented. "Oh my, he looks just like my dead/ex- husband". It was out of the blue and a light of humour in the hour of bleakness. C: Kind souls. Bless them.

His body's aging process is biologically reversed which means he's growing younger day by day and I'm predicting that he will die a young baby. No, I have not have the opportunity to finish the movie yet. :C But whatever happened to him in the end, he led a full and interesting life.

Imagine if all our biological clocks turn backwards, we'll all be born ugly and die beautiful. Which would mean that we're practically useless our first 10 years on crutches or wheelchair and then spend our remaining lives productively. An 80 year-old lady could might as well be a model. Imagine that. That would be cool, wouldn't it? If I were to born old and ugly and then die young, wow, my obituary would have a really gorgeous picture of me. C: Haha. But wouldn't it make us vain if we were to look so young at such an age? Most probably at that time, people would start making movies about how to STOP Time instead of reversing It to freeze their moment of youth.

Wait, we have Botox.... Guess that movie's not going to be made unless the title were to be "BOTOX".

Cheers!