Today, we bought the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
We had a sort of family movie night. Though I had watched it at school
(as suggested by a close friend of mine who is awesome and brilliant),
it was an utter joy re-watching it with the family.
The movie is about a man who steers clear of any and all super duper risks. A man who really plays it safe. He tries to make risks, meaning he daydreams about it, but he never can get himself to really do it. It's an adaptation on the classic short story (you can read it here). In this particular adaptation, Ben Stiller plays a quiet negative (of films of pictures) developer at LIFE Magazine. Being brought into an online version, LIFE is, in the movie, letting go of a lot of employees and developing the final issue of LIFE Magazine. There is a photographer who lets only Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) handle his photos because he feels he knows and understand LIFE best and gets his photos where he wants them. The photographer travels the world consistently and never settles. He stays pretty primitive (except for his camera) and really focuses on the necessities and true marrows of life.
All this said, the photographer sends his film of photos to Walter, asking that he produce #25 of the set on the final issue for he believes it is the quintessence of LIFE Magazine. One problem. He can't find it. Therefore, in order to continue his loyalty to this amazing, one of a kind photographer, Walter is forced to turn his daydreaming into reality so that he might track down the photographer and get #25 from him. So, he must travel. He must go the Greenland, escape and erupting volcano, bike through Iceland, climb the Himalayas, and, eventually, understand the marrow of life.
I've told you far too much already. Point is, first, you must go buy this film now and watch it. The movie reminds us that we can't sit around waiting for life to happen to us. We take chances, we go into the unknown, we fight for what we need and want out of life. And, you know, some things just aren't as big of issues as we make them out to be. But the beauty of life is always to be celebrated. No matter what. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is filled to the brim of adventure and beauty and marrow of life. Every time I've seen it, it has reminded me that sitting around for the next thing to happen to me is lame and boring and pointless. It's up to me. No pressure, really. It's just if I want my life to be full, I have to fill it up. And it's beautiful. Sure, it's nothing we don't hear all of the time, but it's worth remembering and being reminded.
Woo!
Mary Taylor
A little guy my mom babysits who is totally loving life and reminds me to :)
The movie is about a man who steers clear of any and all super duper risks. A man who really plays it safe. He tries to make risks, meaning he daydreams about it, but he never can get himself to really do it. It's an adaptation on the classic short story (you can read it here). In this particular adaptation, Ben Stiller plays a quiet negative (of films of pictures) developer at LIFE Magazine. Being brought into an online version, LIFE is, in the movie, letting go of a lot of employees and developing the final issue of LIFE Magazine. There is a photographer who lets only Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) handle his photos because he feels he knows and understand LIFE best and gets his photos where he wants them. The photographer travels the world consistently and never settles. He stays pretty primitive (except for his camera) and really focuses on the necessities and true marrows of life.
All this said, the photographer sends his film of photos to Walter, asking that he produce #25 of the set on the final issue for he believes it is the quintessence of LIFE Magazine. One problem. He can't find it. Therefore, in order to continue his loyalty to this amazing, one of a kind photographer, Walter is forced to turn his daydreaming into reality so that he might track down the photographer and get #25 from him. So, he must travel. He must go the Greenland, escape and erupting volcano, bike through Iceland, climb the Himalayas, and, eventually, understand the marrow of life.
I've told you far too much already. Point is, first, you must go buy this film now and watch it. The movie reminds us that we can't sit around waiting for life to happen to us. We take chances, we go into the unknown, we fight for what we need and want out of life. And, you know, some things just aren't as big of issues as we make them out to be. But the beauty of life is always to be celebrated. No matter what. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is filled to the brim of adventure and beauty and marrow of life. Every time I've seen it, it has reminded me that sitting around for the next thing to happen to me is lame and boring and pointless. It's up to me. No pressure, really. It's just if I want my life to be full, I have to fill it up. And it's beautiful. Sure, it's nothing we don't hear all of the time, but it's worth remembering and being reminded.
Woo!
Mary Taylor
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