Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

We always love to compare ourselves with the hero or heroine of a film or play. Some movies or dramas completely reflect our own life story and some reflect our dream what we want to be.  Few days back I watched a movie named Secret Life of Walter Mitty, after watching this movie is something happening inside me. I am a movie lover and watch lots of great movie and drama in my life. But this movie gave me a shock. I know it’s a very simple movie and IMD rating is not so serious. I also rated it 7.  There are hundreds of movies with this level of rating. But the fact is not about rating, I think there is a deep a massage in the movie.

There is a life with freedom and full of aspirations. Mitty is not a high rank officer in his Magazine Company, which is called LIFE. He just worked in the archive sector. His savings are almost zero. He always dreams that he is a super hero and save the life of the masses. He is not waiting for superman, he makes himself a superman. He likes his divorced beautiful colleague and never dare to say it. Day dreaming, working, going back home is the daily routine of his life. But suddenly he comes down in a great danger; a photographer sends a roll of film from which one of the film is selected for the next magazine cover. Mitty found out that the 24 number films are missing and that is the selected film. There are only a few days left to print the final output. He comes to know that the photographer is in Greenland. He fled to Greenland, but he missed to catch him. After looking for a long time, he found the photographer in Nepal or somewhere about the Mount Everest. But unfortunately the film was in his wallet is given by the photographer which he threw away in dustbin few days ago. By the way Mitty’s mom saves it and Mitty submitted it to the company. That’s the brief summary of the movie.

It really reflects my own aspiration. Hundreds of time I become a super hero in my own story. Daydream is one of my habits and traveling also attracts me. If you think Mitty run to get the photographer to pull through his job, you are wholly incorrect. Mitty runs after the photographer because of his questing mind. What was really into the film? This only one question makes him crazy and adventurous. In today’s life, we are going to forget about questioning and to find out the answer. Sometimes a few of us raises questions, but most of the time we never try to find out the answer. We all are ready to ‘Give and Done’ work and years after years we are doing the same thing every day. Is it really the life we want or we insist our life to do it?