They are Benjamin Button children -- only about a half dozen of them in the world, who age only one year for every four in the life of a normal human being. And so far, doctors can find nothing ...

Benjamin, who at age 20 looks 60, gets a job on a tugboat and spends a winter in a Russian seaport. War breaks out and the tugboat squares off against a German submarine with explosive results.

To age in reverse, like Benjamin Button in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 yarn, illuminates little in and of itself – because it’s the opposite of anyone’s experience, empathy’s hardly a given.

There’s nothing wrong with old age.” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is streaming now on Netflix. This article was originally published on May 23, 2023. Learn Something New Every Day.

‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ Review: Good-Hearted Musical Is Long on Incident but Short on Drama ... (Jamie Parker), beginning with his mysterious birth at the age of 70 in 1918.