The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008 Film) David Fincher

In order to discuss the importance of context and changes made to the story in accordance to that context, I would like to take David Fincher’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” as the case study...

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light”.

The opening stanza to Dylan Thomas’ poem echoes its theme of aging, asserting the necessity of the elderly to live...