Ben
Stiller in SLWM vs. Zoolander vs. meeting with Zelenskyy or
anyone’s Parents vs. spending Night as Security officer in the Museum or
being an actor in Tropic Thunder vs. teaching tennis lessons to
Kyrgios (satire); the Walter Mitty & his dream machine amongst all
would remain in your thoughts for a long time. The scene imitating the curious
case of benjamin button was truly amusing. And it isn’t easy to direct story
of a simple man with so much of depth, vibrance, richness, colorful, painted
with impeccable scenic views! How Hans
Zimmer transformed the aesthetics of any movie, be it MI2 (the best M.I.
flick of its franchise) or Inception or Interstellar & many more; the composers
of SLWM at least to some extent, have done the same favor to it.
Whether
entire flick is a dream or Walter truly is in on an expedition of his life,
finding the negative roll, what the character Sean O’Connell sent to his
company, to be published as cover page for its last print edition, as the
company been acquired to become fully digital, & being the negative asset
manager, Walter thinks he somehow lost that important roll, & commence on a
journey to find Sean from the clues he sent, & help of Cheryl (his
coworker & whom he admires a lot & in secret even tries to connect her
via eHarmony portal) to know about the roll; from Greenland to Iceland to Afghan
mountains; amidst the space oddity song wherein Walter jumps into the
helicopter; is much more than mere heartwarming & heartening.
There’s
a saying that when tragedy crosses the limit, it becomes a comedy. The
SLWM has tried to balance it by swaying in between the two. Walter merely
thinks in terms of what ought to have been done in his dream machine, eventually
embracing the present & moving forward with the simulated real. He can’t change
what needs to be changed, except by zooming out of the present, for a change!
Worth
a watch!
© Pranav Chaturvedi
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