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It's an astonishing film that explores themes of life, death, and love in the context of a man who ages backward. It's unique and thought-provoking, diverting, and depressing. I knew it was adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, but I decided it was high time I read it. The book turned out to be a short story first published in Colliers Magazine in 1921. In an introduction to his glen mckenna for sale  story, Fitzgerald reflected that a quote by Mark Twain gave him the idea. This quote could be the one that inspired him, it certainly fits the premise.

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen." --Mark Twain

The movie differs from Fitzgerald's story. The title is the same, as is Benjamin's name, and the concept of aging backward. Benjamin is born an old man. His father is horrified when he first sees him in the hospital - a seventy-year-old man with a beard who can actually talk. Benjamin's mother does not appear in the story at all. And unlike the movie, his father takes him home and raises him. He makes him shave, dye his hair, and buys him toys so he can try and pass him off as a child. Years pass and its apparent Benjamin is looking younger and feeling better as he ages.