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As Benjamin regresses into childhood and infancy, he loses autobiographical memory. Daisy cares for him as an old man caring for a child with dementia—a role reversal that highlights the tragedy of losing shared history. The film suggests that memory, not age, defines a person.
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This dichotomy suggests that identity is not a fixed point but a sliding scale. Benjamin is the same person at the end of his life (as an infant) as he was at the beginning (as an elder), yet his agency is stripped away in both extremes. The film implies that the "self" is best defined not by the vessel of the body, but by the accumulation of memories—a tragedy, as Benjamin eventually loses his memories to the dementia of infancy. As Benjamin regresses into childhood and infancy, he