Great Movie with memorable scenes

Rating: 7/10 (23 July 2015)

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" Is a 2013 movie that goes for 114 minutes. Secret Life of Walter Mitty is directed by Ben Stiller. He has directed a lot of comedy movies so some people didn't think he could pull of a non-comedy movie but he did a great job with it. It does has comedy bits in it but for the most part it is a more serious movie than comedy. So the genre is Adventure, Comedy and Drama. This movie stars Ben Stiller as Walter Mitty, Kristen Wiig as his love interest Cheryl and Adam Scott as the boss. The story is about this guy named Walter Mitty that has this condition to constantly zone out and imagine himself in these different and weird scenarios and this is one of the main technique for the story telling for at least half of the film. Walter Mitty has a boring life in New York, having an average job, lonely in his apartment and doing the same thing over and over again without real change. This this is one of the reason why he zones out and imagines himself in these situations. He went to work and found out that they are cutting people off because the magazine company that he is working for is going to be an online magazine and Walter has been sent images by this photographer named Sean O'Connell and one of his images is going to be on the front of the final magazine but Walter can't find it so he sets off to a journey to find Sean to these beautiful and various locations and to ask him where the missing photo is. The actors in this movie is well casted and there weren't any bad actors nor the characters they played except for the eHarmony subplot that they put in, so Walter Mitty had some trouble sending "Winks" on the website and called one of the workers at eHarmony to help him with this situation but this guy keeps calling him throughout the movie and it gets annoying and a bit unrealistic. The camera work and the editing in this film was very well done, there was a scene where he was running to catch a ride in a helicopter. This action sequence was in the slow-motion with David Bowie's Space Oddity playing in the back ground. This made the scene very impactful and getting the viewers to know that he is on his first step on his adventure. He travels to Greenland, Iceland, Yemen and Afghanistan and all these locations give this film a lot of life, especially with the camera shots and the music along with it makes it feel like an adventure. The viewer feels like you are inside his head and seeing life through is eyes and makes the film has a very unique style of storytelling. As a viewer you start to realize that Walter zones out a lot less since he has done so many amazing things and seeing beautiful sights, and as viewer you realize that he is making his imagination a reality and this is pretty impactful by the end of the film. So in conclusion this a very solid film with very well done story-telling and having hidden messages having you to figure out some of the elements by yourself. There is some characters with unrealistic characteristics and personality's but the rest of the characters are pretty solid and well written. The theme of the movie is very well structured and shows you what an adventure can be like, feel like and look like. I give this movie 7.5/10.