I used to hear someone said, "Live looks clearer through the rear-view mirror." How about "through the wind shield on a revising car"?
Benjamin led such a curious life. He lived the same world as we are, yet his world was heading the opposite direction as he was. So instead of a life-long journey, he lived in brief moments, when his life and his world intersected, and long gaps between those moments. Those gaps are his curse as while as his blessing. They took away good parts of his time, but gave him long stretches to reflect on life's sweetness and bitterness through their after-tastes. Throughout the movie, we lived those "moments", but felt those "gaps", and that allows us to look at the world through his eyes: the world of life and death, the world of love and longing and the world of hope and despair.
Benjamin fell victim of his own tragedy. Forest Gump "chose" to run, and "chose" to stop. Benjamin had no other choice but to cruise along.
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