how does benjamin button story, though written almost a century ago, reflect our society's current attitude toward age and aging?

Time: the one commodity that is the same to everyone each day. With time we are always moving forward, advancing. However, this film reveals to us what would happen if time ran in reverse while everything and everyone else is moving forward. There is a "sweet spot" that we see with Benjamin and Daisy, but Time has a different direction for each of them as they are moving away from one another, while ironically at the same time moving towards each other. Today is no different. Youth is a time that is worshipped: especially sexual youth. The time when "looks" and sexual attraction come together is seen as almost a mythical period.