How “Walter Mitty” Affects Me

         

When there were only 10 people in the theater, I did not expect much from this movie initially. My friends and I just randomly chose this movie because I thought it was so much better than ‘paranormal activity’ *sorry... It was my personal judgment*. 

Honestly, it made me a bit worry, you know, we didn’t want a boring Friday night with a boring movie. But in fact, I got something and how this movie affects me, here it is J

          

I would like to say that this is a really simple movie with simply ideas behind. Walter Mitty is regular worker who spent 16 years in LIFE magazine. He is a daydreamer who always imagines heroic actions to ‘create’ himself as an extraordinary person. These imaginations come from the way she falls in love with his work-partner, he wants to attract her attention in real life but it  turns out happen in his imaginations, sure, in an over ordinary imaginations. He gets troubles where he should find out the negative picture number 25 that will be printed as the last cover of LIFE magazine. The journey began when he bravely decided to travel away looking for the photographer ‘Simone O’connell’ to get the lost picture and to save his career. By support from the girl he loves, Greenlad, Island, Afghanistan and Himalaya, those are the places he travels into just to find out that picture no. 25. Then a after long trip, finally he found the photographer in the top of Himalaya. Ironically, the picture actually was in the 1^st place- wallet he got from the photographer, not in the photographer itself. So, his entire journey were useless because of all he needed is in the place he never expected it would be (wallet as present by O’connell at beginning scene).

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What I think of:

ü  The picture he is searching for is associated with happiness.

ü  This is the journey about one person who looks for definition of life (happiness) while he is living in it. He gets so much confuses to describe life he lives in and using other standard to measure it.

ü  This is about a person who rediscovers meanings of life (happiness), when he is looking for it, he just simply don’t understand that what he is walking in is the thing he is looking for.

ü  This is about the person who manifests the unconscious mind into action. All of heroic imaginations I thought come from the oppression he has deep down. He is a kinda person who needs efforts to bravely out of his comfort zone and to dealing with life without thinking of money only.

ü  This movie also spread such a good, simply and smart idea;

         “The Beautiful things don’t ask for attention”

      ü  I also interest with the motto from the Life magazine :

         “To see the world

          Things dangerous to come to

          To find each other, and to feel

          That is the purpose of life      

 ü  Last, during the whole scenes, I DO enjoy the beautiful scenery displayed. It makes me want to travel a lot.   A LOT!

        

       This movie inspires me to :

1. Don’t Wait Just Do – Totally I have to, because I am worried too much.

2. Enjoying every second in my life without caring other’s perspective in creates ‘Waw Effect’.

   In fact, each of us has it, here, inside!

3. How different your life would be when you step out from your comfort zone.

I graduated from English literature but in this phase, I don’t want to write down like a student again J I am done in literary criticism class, I just want to enjoy and write down what I think of in the way I want it J J J