The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

In a hilarious set up to watch movies yesterday…. We went and saw “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty “ instead of “American Hustle “…I was pretty sure I told Heartman I wanted to see the later, but ended up seeing the former…he thought I wanted to see the former…  :/ 
Ok. Fine.

As a consequence, what you get is a review.

*picture courtesy moviefanatic.com

In one word…the movie made no sense ( ok that was 5 words!) , it was way too indulgent, saw too many product positioning (eHarmony, McDonalds’s Papa John’s, Cinnabon … you get the picture) and at the end of it  I really didn’t understand the point of  all the dreaming and chasing and wishing and wanting …I was hoping the movie would leave me with something, anything…even a a subtle hint to get me contemplating, would have helped…but I just came away empty…

Daydreaming is not a fool’s act, it’s an important creative process, it’s a technique to visualize a certain reality…possible not possible...but the possibility of a reality one prefers.  It is a possible potential and such possibilities should be nurtured in a more meaningful way (Inception anyone?). It does not emphatically or pronouncedly need to feel indulgent, “zoned out” , cozy feel good…if it does…I rather feel it as a by-product of the journey…not the journey itself…and this is why the movie fails for me.

However, I must add, that there is something about the movie conceptually and if it was better thought out …better executed and had a really sense of purpose, it would have been wonderful. To the movies credit…if I were to take visuals and situations out of context of the movie…then the travel to Greenland, Iceland, ungoverned Afghanistan…were really nice…and somewhere along the corridors of my mind…I could feel the need to engage on an abrupt trip…do something crazy…keep doing it for a while. But that is just me and my mental meandering

If you need to watch a movie to just generally feel good…this could be “one” of them…meanwhile, I’m still waiting for the Ben Stiller from “ There is something about Mary” .