The curious case of Benjamin Button
*maybe spoiler warning*
These are my thoughts...
The curious case of Benjamin Button is about symmetry.
B is the second letter of the alphabet, 2.
Benjamin Button is 2 and 2.
2 and 2 = 4. The 4th letter of the alphabet is 'd'. Daisy starts with 'D'.
A button usually has 4 holes to thread through. 2 on top, 2 at the bottom. This brings us back to 2 - 2, Benjamin Button.
His father bequeaths him a factory - Button's Buttons, B and B again, 2 and 2.
The film is symmetrical.
Benjamin Button is at any one time both x years young and x years old. He is at any one time, young and old. In the beginning, he was physically old but mentally young; in the end, he was physically young and mentally old.
A doctor was there in the beginning; a doctor was there at the end.
The humming bird was seen twice, both times at the death of people dear to him.
The lady swims the English channel twice, once before she meets Benjamin and once after.
He left Caroline when she was 2; he returned when she was 12 (the first number is 1/2 the second, the second number is 2 times the first).
The clock at the railway station was mentioned once in the beginning and once at the end.
Halfway through the film, Benjamin and Daisy were both 48, divisible by 2, and the first number is 1/2 the second and the second is 2 times the first.
The entire narrative is a story within a story; and there are stories within the story (eg: the stories of the man struck by lightning, which is within Benjamin Button's story, which is within the present day story of Caroline and Daisy, which is within the bigger story of hurricane Katrina).
Symmetry, B B.
