loki on Nostr: in Benjamin Button, the film (loosely based on F Scott Fitzgerald's novel) depicts ...
in Benjamin Button, the film (loosely based on F Scott Fitzgerald's novel) depicts the origin of Benjamin aging backwards in time because of a backwards clock built by a mourning father for a son lost in WW1 - with that same father passing away of a broken heart.
The film depiction and story lines up with Émile Durkheim, a French sociologist whose main field of study was how societies could hold their integrity in a post-religious era. Many of his students, who shared his goals, would pass away in the trenches of a WW1 borne of societies who gained their integrity through sharpening it through war, until finally, his own son André died as well on the war front - a loss from which he would never recover and never be able to go back in time to study.
Two years after his son died, Émile Durkheim would pass away of a stroke.
The film depiction and story lines up with Émile Durkheim, a French sociologist whose main field of study was how societies could hold their integrity in a post-religious era. Many of his students, who shared his goals, would pass away in the trenches of a WW1 borne of societies who gained their integrity through sharpening it through war, until finally, his own son André died as well on the war front - a loss from which he would never recover and never be able to go back in time to study.
Two years after his son died, Émile Durkheim would pass away of a stroke.