"Yes, The Case Is Curious..."

OMG, if you haven't seen this movie yet, you are doing yourself a huge injustice! We rented it from one of those Red Boxes inside the Walmart last weekend and I don't usually admit to something affecting how I live my life, but I will start here. I'm sure you know the premise: A baby is born looking like a very tiny, but very old man and eventually as he ages becomes younger as everyone else becomes older. He ends up with Daisy who is the granddaughter of one of the ladies who lives at the nursing home that Benjamin grows up in. After a while they "catch up" to each other age wise and have a daughter. Knowing he cannot be the father she needs, Benjamin takes off and doesn't come back for about 10 years. This was the only time his daughter, now twelve, ever saw him, and didn't even know it. Fast forward about four years when, now in the stages of dementia, he is discovered in an abandoned house not knowing his name but he has his journal with Daisy's name in it. A lot. So she takes him and moves into the nursing home where they both used to play as kids and takes care of him. He gets younger, eventually forgetting his name, and then, as a baby, takes one last look at Daisy, now an old woman, as if he knew who she was, and passes away.

I've been reading a lot of message boards about this movie and while everyone seems to be split as to if it was "that" good a movie to be nominated for Oscars, one thing we seem to agree on is that it is a movie worth seeing. All I have been able to think about since I saw it was how sad it ended. Daisy got to hang out with him as a young boy, an old man, and a man the same age as her, but in the end, she had to say goodbye to him and he had no idea what was going on. I sometimes wonder what the point of a lot of things we do in life is. I mean, what we did five years ago has absolutely to significance right now, does it? What we ate, what we wore, what we did. All we can do is file our memories away in a giant album of sorts, and hope when we want to relive them, we know how to find them. I really feel for people with Alzheimer's and dementia. Not knowing who your family is, not remembering most of what you did when you were a kid, not being able to tell your grandkids stories of things you got to do and see. I guess that's why I keep this site going. If I ever had trouble remembering things, I have it all on here. Or at least most of it anyways ha ha. One of my special (i.e. trivial) talents is being able to recall a lot of what I did as a child, to the point that my family wonders how I can remember this stuff and get C's in school. Hey, what can I say, I remember what i want to remember. I try to instill in Zach and Emmy how much fun it is to be a kid and to enjoy every day of it. Hopefully my knowledge of the past will play a part in their future.