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Ben Stiller flexes his directorial muscles in this quirkily whimsical
piece about a white collar worker who works for Life magazine.
Watch The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Online That worker is Walter
Mitty (played by Ben Stiller) – and his job is to process photos for
inclusion in the magazine. Prone to daydreaming, Mitty’s an unmitigated
hopeless case; a man for whom fantasy is more reality than an escape
from the anonymity of a boring daily routine.
But when the magazine is bought out by a conglomerate and the final
issue’s announced by management-speak spouting bearded boss (Adam
Scott), Mitty’s forced to take action – not just because the image they
need from top photographer Sean O’Connell is missing.
So, bounding out of the door and finally coming to life, spurred on
by LIFE Magazine colleague (and crush) Cheryl, Mitty embarks on the
first and biggest adventure of his lifetime as he comes wildly to life.
Watch The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Online The Secret Life of
Walter Mitty is a real curio of a film and a doozy served up by Ben
Stiller. Based on James Thurber’s 1939 short story and not a remake of
the 1947 film, Stiller’s committed something to celluloid which looks
distinctly different to anything else witnessed this year. Mitty’s
flights of fancy are visually incredible as they weave seamlessly into
the ongoing narrative – from an opening sequence where he imagines
himself leaping perilously through a building to save Cheryl’s
three-legged dog before the whole thing blows up to an imaginary fight
with his boss which wrecks as much of Manhattan as theAvengers did and
an adorably funny sequence where Mitty imagines his life with Cheryl in
an homage to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,they capture the
fantastical nature of a daydreamer. But, with so many of them coming so
quickly, the technique threatens to jar and irritate rather than to help
the film soar.
Thankfully, when Mitty springs into life to track down O’Connell, the
film calms down a little as the real adventure doesn’t need sprucing up
with fantastical edges. Taking in Greenland and Iceland’s wondrous
scenery, Stiller’s done an excellent job of letting the visuals set the
tone for this incredulous journey of a quiet and reserved man finding
his voice.
Watch The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Online Sure, there are
coincidences of quirk layered upon this travelogue and a nice side story
involving an internet dating site continually calling Mitty to expand
his profile and hobbies as he’s out adventuring, but there’s an
earnestness and a zest for life that’s fully exploited on the big
screen.
Stiller doesn’t entirely manage to fully convince as Mitty; while
he’s dialled down his propensity for slapstick (which comes to the fore
in a couple of sequences), his default setting appears to be Blue Steel
which can be occasionally off-putting. He has a good solid rapport with
Wiig and their burgeoning relationship works well; likewise, the
enigmatic Sean O’Connell is excellently portrayed by an earnest Penn.
Watch The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Online Thoughtful, occasionally
profound and always visually inventive, it’s as a director that Ben
Stiller excels in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – I’ve seen nothing
else like this on the big screen this year. There are strong visuals
which really resonate as they bounce onto your eyeballs – and Stiller’s
found a crafty way to write various parts of the script into the world
around Mitty thanks to VFX.
All in all, there’s a cinematic eccentricity and whimsy to The Secret
Life of Walter Mitty which is hard to ignore; it’s a flight of fancy
and reflective piece to let wash over you as the excesses of Christmas
subside.
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