the curious case of benjamin button

i love the elegantly understated telling of this unique and poignant tale of a man who was born to live life backwards: who from birth learnt what it meant to be old and unwanted, who discovered that his was a life to be journeyed in loneliness, who laid down his one great love to afford her a chance for a normal life, who had his heart broken by his physical inability to be a father to his only daughter, and who gradually lost much of the memories of his extraordinary existence before finally finding eternal peace in the arms of the woman who had loved him nearly all her life.