《返老還童》講述的一個非常離奇的故事，那就是一個人在出生的時候就是一個糟老頭，在接下的生活裏這個老頭越活越年輕，最後變成一個嬰兒在襁褓中死去。這種故事結構也太不可思議了吧，這也使得這部文藝電影榮獲第81屆奧斯卡獎最佳藝術指導、最佳化妝、最佳視覺效果等獎項。沒有看過的小夥伴一定要看看，不僅是看看這個離奇的故事，還要看看這個逆生長所經歷的一切。
1.Some people, were born to sit by a river.
無論什麼膚色，什麼體型，人們都是孤獨的。但可怕的不是孤獨，而是懼怕孤獨。其實孤獨沒什麼不好，真的。
NGUNDA OTI: Plenty times you be alone. You different like us, it's gonna be that way. But I tell you a little secret. Fat people,skinny people, tall people, white people... they just as alone as us... But they scaredshitless... Not a thing wrong with being alone... no sir...
2.Some get struck by lightning.
當我瞎了一個眼睛，幾乎聽不見晨間喧囂，動不動就抽搐，總是丟三落四，上帝卻依然扔下閃電來提醒我，能夠活着已經是樁幸運的事了。
MR. DAWS: I'm blind in the one eye...I can't hardly hear...I get twitches and shakes out of nowhere... I lose my line of thought... but you know what... God keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive...
3.Some have an ear for music.
無所謂你彈奏得怎樣，重要的是你彈琴時的感受……我們命中註定要失去我們所愛之人，不然我們怎麼知道他們在我們生命中有多重要？
THE WOMAN: It isn't how well you play, it's how you feel about what you're playing... We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us.
4.Some are artists.
有時事與願違，你大可以像瘋狗一樣咆哮，怨天尤人，詛咒命運，悔不當初……但走到最後一刻，還是不得不安靜地放手歸去……
CAPT. MIKE: You can be mad as a mad dawg at the way things went... You can swear, curse the fates, regret everything you ever did.. but when it comes to the end... You have to let it go...
5.Some swim.
我一直等着，等着自己的狀況變好，但我自己從未做過什麼，人生就這麼平白無辜地浪費了。
ELIZABETH ABBOTT: I kept waiting, thinking I would do something to change my circumstance... Do something... But I never did... It's an awful waste, you can never get it back... wasted time... If we're going to have an affair, you're never to look at me during the day, we must always part by sunrise, and we can never say "I And when it is over I will send you a card that will simply say goodbye... Those are the rules...
6.Some know buttons.
當我還是個小孩子的時候我會早早醒來跑到湖邊看日出。那一刻的感覺，好像全世界只有我一個人似的。
THOMAS BUTTON: When I was a boy I would love to wake up before anybody else and run down to the lake to watch the day begin. It was as if I was the only one alive.
7.Some know Shakespeare.
看守我這衰弱的老頭子的好人們，讓垂死的摩提默在這兒歇一歇吧。我由於長期監禁，肢體痛楚不堪，好像剛從刑架上拖下來的人一般。我這滿頭白髮，是在苦難的歲月中折磨出來的，它預示着摩提默的死期不遠了。
TIZZY: "Kind keepers of my weak decaying age, Let dying Mortimer here rest himself. Even like a man new haled from the rack. So fare my limbs with long imprisonment. And these gray locks, the pursuivants of death, Nestor-like aged in an age of care, Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer."
8.Some are mothers.
每個人對於自己的感受都不一樣。我們都走向同一個方向，只是走的路不同罷了。本傑明，你有你自己的道路。
QUEENIE: Everybody feels different about themselves one way or another. We're all goin' the same way, just taking different roads to get there... You're on your own road, Benjamin.
9.And some people.
有些東西，是亙古不變的。
DAISY: Maybe some things last.
10.There is always something that I should remember for the rest of my life.
總有一些事情是我需要銘記一生的。
11.You could be mad as a mad dog at the way things went.
you can swear and curse the fates,
but when it comes to the end,
you have to let go.
你可以像瘋狗那樣對周圍的一切憤憤不平
你可以詛咒命運
但是等到最後一刻到來之時
你還得平靜的放手而去。
12.For what it's worth, it's never too late, or in my case, too early, to be whoever you want to be.
There's no time limit, stop whenever you want.
You can change or stay the same.
There's no rules to this thing.
We can make the best or the worst of it.
I hope you make the best of it.
I hope you see things that startle you.
I hope you feel things you never felt before.
I hope you meet people with a different point of view.
I hope you live a life you're proud of.
If you find that you are not,
I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
一件事無論太晚或者對於我來説太早，都不會阻攔你成為你想成為的那個人，這個過程沒有時間的期限，只要你想，隨時都可以開始，要改變或者保留原狀都無所謂，做事本不應該有所束縛，我們可以辦好這件事卻也可以把它搞砸，但我希望最終你能成為你想成為的人。
我希望你有時能駐足於這個令你感到驚歎的世界，體會你從未有過的感覺。
我希望你能見到其他與你觀點不同的人們。
我希望你能有一個值得自豪的人生。
如果你想象的生活不一樣
我希望你能有勇氣重新啓程。
13.You never know what's coming for you！
你永遠也不清楚... 接下來會發生什麼
14.We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
我們註定要失去我們所愛的人，要不然我們怎麼知道他們對我們有多麼的重要。
15.What are you thinking?
I was thinking how nothing lasts.
And what a shame that is.
Some things last.
-Goodnight, Daisy.
-Goodnight, Benjamin.
你在想什麼呢？
我在想沒有什麼東西能持續到永遠的...
我們也不例外
有些東西就是會持續到永遠的
- 晚安，黛西
- 晚安，本傑明
故事走到結尾，幾乎全是淚點。當本傑明變成一個孩子，他這時候迷茫了，因為他已經經歷了一生，現在如孩童的傑明只有放開曾經的一切，順從的走向死亡。