The Sixteen-Year-Old Baby – A Real-life Benjamin Button or Fountain of Youth?
Posted by: Alex Zalben on July 1, 2009 at 9:14 am
In movies like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Jack, genetic aging disorders are treated with whimsy. They’re chances for us, as an audience, to reflect on what adult life really means through the eyes of a child. But for Brooke Greenberg, being a teenager trapped in the body of an infant isn’t all life lessons and magic.
For the past sixteen years, Greenberg has maintained the appearance and development of an infant, baffling researchers who have been unable to identify any previous known genetic disorder in her genome. Brooke’s condition is so unique, in fact, that scientists now believe her body may hold the key to eternal youth. Somebody tell Hugh Jackman, stat, because he thinks it’s in a space tree (The Fountain, anyone?)
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6 Responses to "The Sixteen-Year-Old Baby – A Real-life Benjamin Button or Fountain of Youth?"
3 | Jrrd
The Fountain? Oh, I know The Fountain Mr. Alex. It’s only a ridiculously tremendous favorite of mine! The graphic novel is impressive to me aswell. I swear, IMHO, some of those pages are worth framing. (OZ, anyone?) You have my bias recommendation of it. What I’d like to see is Matheson’s What Dreams May Come, turn graphic novel.
Dr. Walker sounds like great material, BTW. ; )
4 | Alex Zalben
Wow, What Dreams May Come, huh? Yipes.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a gorgeous movie, but… Yipes.
Thanks for checking out the article :)
5 | Jrrd
That’s an awfully cryptic “yipes”, with “gorgeous” to boot. Obviously the imagery is there! Plus, eliminate the baggage we get with actors and get to the book. I mean, what literary device wasn’t used in that story? : ) Limiting factors? One. Finding the best writer for adaptation! What could possibly be wrong Mr. Alex? : )
6 | Alex Zalben
No, you’re totally right… I’d like an unrelated What Dreams May Come comic, just not anything that had to do with the movie…
