Secret Life of Walter Mitty
(I included some pictures as well as my favorite quote from the movie)
The movie I chose was "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". This film focuses on the life of a slightly odd, middle aged man, Walter Mitty, living in New York City, who has worked the same job for the last fifteen years and done relatively nothing with his life. He lives in is own mind, focusing more on what could have happened if he had done what his younger self had dreamed of doing, exploring the world, rather than what he has the ability to do now. He then comes to find a slide from a film strip he had been given has gone missing, and is thrust into the adventure he had so desperately sought after his whole life. Throughout his journey to find the elusive photographer who has the missing negative, he discovers a reality where he can be the adventurer, the hero, the traveler, the man he has always wanted to be. The message of the movie is that life is out there, and the only way to find it is to travel, explore and search for it; and in the process you more often than not find yourself.
The reason I really love this movie is I partly because of the message, as I do agree with it. The other reason has a lot to do with the actual shooting of the film. The landscape photography of the places he travels to are absolutely stunning, capturing the soaring peaks and desolate beauty of the Himalayas, as well as the intensity of riding down the curving roads of the volcanic regain of Iceland. This also allows the audience to appreciate the work that the photographer, who Walter is attempting to find though out the movie, is able to capture through seriously hard work. This movie gave the me notion of what it was to be a photojournalist, which is what I would one day like to be.
The soundtrack is also amazing and contributes a great deal to the movie in many ways, but much goes to expressing the emotion of the scenes.
"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life."
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