Adaptation

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The thing that impressed me most about this movie is its use of timing and how it affects people’s relationships. Talking about timing, what comes to my mind is a timer. Since this story is about a man, Benjamin, who ages backward, I create an anti-clockwise moving timer. There are different objects for different time zones which represents the different stages of his life. I intended to use a pacifier to refer to 12 o’clock, in a way to indicate the identical start and end of Benjamin’s life- the infant stage.