《返老還童》是《搏擊俱樂部》導演大衛·芬奇執導的一部電影，該電影不同于其他電影的是這部電影以倒敘方式，講述了布拉德·皮特所飾演的本杰明·巴頓，從生下來就是一個矮小的老頭，然后開始了與別人不一樣的逆生長，別人越來越老而巴頓居然越來越年輕，之后遇見了自己未來的妻子黛西，黛西老去，巴頓變成了嬰兒，在卡特里娜颶風吹襲之時，他的生命也跟著颶風離開了人世，《返老還童》獲得了第81屆奧斯卡最佳視覺效果、最佳化妝、最佳藝術指導三項大獎，而主演本片的布拉德·皮特和塔拉吉·P·漢森獲得了奧斯卡最佳男主角提名和奧斯卡最佳女配角提名，而且布拉德·皮特和安吉麗娜·朱莉的女兒希洛·朱莉·皮特在劇中飾演了僅剩幾天生命的本杰明·巴頓。

《返老還童》經典臺詞一

　　1.Some people, were born to sit by a river.

　　無論什么膚色，什么體型，人們都是孤獨的。但可怕的不是孤獨，而是懼怕孤獨。其實孤獨沒什么不好，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，能夠活著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……我們命中注定要失去我們所愛之人，不然我們怎么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.

　　有時事與愿違，你大可以像瘋狗一樣咆哮，怨天尤人，詛咒命運，悔不當初……但走到最后一刻，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.

　　我一直等著，等著自己的狀況變好，但我自己從未做過什么，人生就這么平白無辜地浪費了。

　　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。我由于長期監禁，肢體痛楚不堪，好像剛從刑架上拖下來的人一般。我這滿頭白發，是在苦難的歲月中折磨出來的，它預示著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.

　　每個人對于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。本杰明，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, dance.

　　有些東西，是亙古不變的。

　　DAISY: Maybe some things last.

　　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。

　　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

　　但是等到最后一刻到來之時

　　你還得平靜的放手而去。

　　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.