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You may want to skip this post if you have not seen "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" yet.
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When Benjamin (Brad Pitt) returns to the United States as the sole survivor of the heroic and selfless attack on a enemy submarine by the tug boat he works on, we are introduced to his foster sister - the only child born to his adoptive mother (Taraji P. Henson).
The curious thing is ... we never see her again. She doesn't even make an appearance at her mother's funeral where we see family friends paying their respect and condolences to Benjamin and his girlfriend Daisy (Cate Blanchett). This began to bother me even more as the movie drew to a close because as you know Benjamin's life gets lonelier - so much so that when he is eventually brought back to the old people's home because he has been found living on his own and suffering from dementia, it is a recently widowed Dausy that returns to look after him.
It doesn't seem like Benjamin and his sister could have had an estranged relationship. At the funeral of his "real" father he reminds his adoptive mother that she is the only mother he has ever known and they do indeed have a close relationship.
What on earth happens to his sister? Why is she introduced to the story if she is of no consequence at all. Especially for a story that has relationships as it's plot basis?
The curious thing is ... we never see her again. She doesn't even make an appearance at her mother's funeral where we see family friends paying their respect and condolences to Benjamin and his girlfriend Daisy (Cate Blanchett). This began to bother me even more as the movie drew to a close because as you know Benjamin's life gets lonelier - so much so that when he is eventually brought back to the old people's home because he has been found living on his own and suffering from dementia, it is a recently widowed Dausy that returns to look after him.
It doesn't seem like Benjamin and his sister could have had an estranged relationship. At the funeral of his "real" father he reminds his adoptive mother that she is the only mother he has ever known and they do indeed have a close relationship.
What on earth happens to his sister? Why is she introduced to the story if she is of no consequence at all. Especially for a story that has relationships as it's plot basis?
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LOL, you ask a good question but firstly she was there at the funeral, the first young woman that was showed in black with the veil sitting in the front front. And wasn't she the one who after they had found young Benjamin and they called Daisy to say they had found him. Her line was I was telling Mr Henandez that Benjamin is one of us and if he needed a place to stay it is alright he can stay here. My layman assumption is how one starts explaining to someone at child welfare that he was old and started growing young and this is who it is blah blah blah blah
I will pick out two incidences in the movie about her. If you recall correctly he actually narrated that when that Baby came things were different, or the time when he come back and she asked (the sister) who is that Mama , Child it this is your brother Benjamin, I didn't know I he was my brother, there are s**t load things that you don't know.
Relationships are a weird thing, ever wonder why a father is never close to his child because when they were growing up he was never there. It depends how two people are brought together or live together that determines their future relationship
Oh by the way, the movie was awesome - teaches alot about life, love and how we should not take things for granted
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