A movie about life and finding ourselves

Rating: 9/10 (17 January 2016)

In his fifth realization movie, Ben Stiller returns with a movie more consensual. The action takes place with the character of Walter Mitty who works for the magazine Life but his own life is imaginary. Walter has a big problem: he's a dreamer, and dreamers haven't their place in the world of business. He works from the archive of photography and his daily life is boring. But Walter is really implicated in his work and one day, when a photography's negative disappear, he decides to brave the danger to find it. The movie involves us in a long adventure where Walter fights against shark and survives to a volcano's eruption. During the film, there is a real contrast between the place where he works and dreams about a better life, and his journey in a land, like Iceland or Himalaya, where he finally lives his dream.
It's one of the most important point of the movie: the identification of the main character. During all the movie, we follow his point of view and his disappointment. The character seems to be a "normal" person and can be everyone, who doesn't like his works or his boss (played by Adam Scott). We feel a real compassion for Walter and that give to the movie a realistic dimension. An another detail that makes that film a good experience is music. Soundtrack is composed by artists like David Bowie, JosÃ© Gonsalez or Of Monster and Men, the music is in relation with the visual and the landscape. Without the music, some scenes would have lost their epic dimension.
I think "The secret life of Walter Mitty" is an underrated movie because the movie had been realized by Ben Stiller, and also because the main theme is love, like a lot of other movies. Yes, the end of the movie is a happy ending with the girl, but that doesn't get in contradiction with the new Walter Mitty. Finally the movie gives us the envy to take the first plane and leave without over thinking.