The Curious Case of Benjamin Button It's a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I've read it recently. It's 40 pages only (in Russian). I saw the movie a couple of years ago. Hollywood managed to make a really good film. It is considered to be one of the top movies ever, and I agree. The story begins with the Benjamin's birth. But he looked like an 70-year-old man and had same diseases. And his life throughout the plot is kind of vice versa. He becomes younger and younger till he turns into a little baby. In the film he meets 7-year-old girl and they become good friends. Many years later when they have a comparable physical age, they fall in love. But eventually she is getting older and Benjamin is getting younger. It leads to a dramatic end. Chronologically they both are the same age but physically she's an old woman and he's an infant. If only life were the same way! It would start with a festive table in a funeral and would finish in a cradle with lullabies.I wouldn't mind.