“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

The protagonist of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” a book by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, is a man who is born into old age. Born as an old man, Benjamin is doomed to die as a baby due to a genetic ailment or an unexplained aberration that causes his body to age in reverse. Brad Pitt plays the lead in director David Fincher’s extraordinarily thought-provoking film adaptation.
