The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 2013 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Ben Stiller. Ben Stiller is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He has been in many films and also produced many films such as Meet the Fockers, Madagascar, and Night at the Museum. This is the second film adaptation of James Thurber’s short story of the same name. This film stars Ben Stiller as Walter Mitty, Kristen Wiig as Cheryl Melhoff, Shirley MacLaine as Edna Mitty, and Adam Scott as Ted Hendricks. In this film, Walter Mitty (played by Ben Stiller) lives in his mundane life where he escape it by excessive daydreaming. In his daydreams Walter is the man of his dream where he is always an undeniable hero.

One theme in the Secret Life

of Walter Mitty is success and failure. Because Walter Mitty feels as though he is a loser in reality, he daydreams and fantasies excessively. He feels that the only way to escape all of this is to just fantasize instead. In all of his daydreams, Walter is somehow an undeniable hero; whether he is a pilot, a surgeon, or a Commander. In a way, Walter has some sort of identity problem because he is always trying to be something that he is not. It’s almost like he is still still trying to find himself and figure out who he is even though he is an older man.
Overall, I thought this movie was pretty ok. It wasn’t too much like the actual short story that I read back in high school. It was more of a comedy with Ben Stiller with a few differences. I would probably give this movie a 5/10.