My friend and I just saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button this morning, and one similar effect the movie had on us is that we were both left crying. The movie is adapted from the same titled short-story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in which a man is born old and lives for 80 some years, finally dying as an infant. It is also a love story, which was undoubtedly the main reason for our tears, but also profoundly moving as a life story. The scene I've embedded details just that, as Benjamin advises his daughter on how to not just live, but experience life, in any circumstance.
"I had experienced an amplification, a recrudescence of life, a pulse of richer, warmer blood which reached my thoughts, touching them one by one, penetrating everywhere, stirring and colouring the most remote, delicate and secret fibres of my being." --Andre Gide, The Immoralist
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