Brad Pitt and stars in the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, playing a child born with a rare birth defect, which resulted in him aging in reverse; meaning an elder first and an infant in death.The movie depicts an orphaned child, whose mother died during childbirth and his father abandons him on the steps of a convalescent home, where an unsuspecting female, played by Taraji P. Henson stumble upon him on the footsteps of the home and raises him as her child. This film served as a great catalyst for understanding the individual multidimensional progression over the life span.
Though Benjamin’s physical development was in reverse, he learned to cope, build bonds, and make sense of his immediate environment and the world around him. These strides were due imparted to the safe and nurturing home in which he was raised. One’s environment is important because as the theorist (Erik Erikson) points out in the first stage of the psychosocial development model early on in life, one …show more content…
Considering that one in the prime of their life has goals and aspirations that are yet to be fulfilled. Such as career goal, developing social and emotional connection with peers, marriage, starting a family, and financial stability; one may view death at and this stage of development as a life unfulfilled. Yet to die in a body that has not endured the emotional, physical, and psychological changes pertaining to the aforementioned goals and aspirations the young man or woman may somehow feel liberated to die healthy and uninhibited by the demands of developing to a “ripe old age”. When one looks at from the perspective of Benjamin heading towards the dying process he had the opportunity to experience every aspect of life, therefore one could assume that for him to die young and healthy was the optimal way for one’s life journey to come to an
Though Benjamin’s physical development was in reverse, he learned to cope, build bonds, and make sense of his immediate environment and the world around him. These strides were due imparted to the safe and nurturing home in which he was raised. One’s environment is important because as the theorist (Erik Erikson) points out in the first stage of the psychosocial development model early on in life, one …show more content…
Considering that one in the prime of their life has goals and aspirations that are yet to be fulfilled. Such as career goal, developing social and emotional connection with peers, marriage, starting a family, and financial stability; one may view death at and this stage of development as a life unfulfilled. Yet to die in a body that has not endured the emotional, physical, and psychological changes pertaining to the aforementioned goals and aspirations the young man or woman may somehow feel liberated to die healthy and uninhibited by the demands of developing to a “ripe old age”. When one looks at from the perspective of Benjamin heading towards the dying process he had the opportunity to experience every aspect of life, therefore one could assume that for him to die young and healthy was the optimal way for one’s life journey to come to an