REFLECTING ON BENJAMIN BUTTON

Last suturday I went to the movies(again!)anyways Benjamin Button is a really good film,it has nothing to do with what Fitzgerald wrote but it's actually a good movie,my teacher said that its closely related to the American Dream, this wish for youth is neverending she said.for me it was more like this think that Orwell called the process of unlearning. You see people are supposed to grow up,from a baby you become an old person and this process supposedly matures you but in Benjamin's case it goes the other way around, i think Fitzgerald wanted to highlight how superficial our society is,instead of learning through time and experience we have mastered the skill of forgetting,our world instead of gowing forward is constantly going backwards. Actually I think the movie had a couple of confusing stuff,for example in the novel ben is old in appearence and mind,in the movie he's old bt wants to go out and play,fitzgerald wanted to show that we start of thinking that we are better that our forefathers bt in reality we end up making the same mistakes, also the great Hollywood industry having to be commercial fitted into the movie this odd paradox:a love story!fitzg. believed that everything was superficial(remember the great gatsby)so love realations are nothing more than an illusion-you can't have eternal love because its not real!
anyway chears for brad cz he was really good!not as good as his Jesse James though!!!
so thats just me reflecting on benjamin button!!