Essay On The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

Ben Stiller's, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", is the story of a peculiarly mature, high ranking cubicle dweller named Walter Mitty (portrayed by Ben Stiller) working in the photography department of Life magazine. In the beginning of the film, it is made clear that Mitty has issues 'zoning out' and becoming completely oblivious of his surroundings for short periods of time. When Walter is zoning out, he daydreams about absolutely absurd and unrealistic situations where he is more than the typical office worker, and is almost comic style superhero status. Although Mitty has had and dealt with these inattentive behavioral issues for an extensive amount of his life, he begins to start catching more flak at work for these problems as he is caught daydreaming about saving his new work crush, Cheryl Melhoff (potrayed by Kristen Wiig), by his new bosses. Amidst the struggles that Mitty is finding in his own life, around him is a workplace that is undergoing a transformation from a paper magazine publisher to an online
Despite having some cinematic and filming errors, such as weather changing in an unrealistic amount of time, or a volcanic eruption occurring only to have sunny skies a short time later, Ben Stiller does a fairly good job on creating suspense and mystery for the audience. Although there are some hackneyed,insignificant scenes throughout Mitty's travels, we are kept left on the edge of our seat in a few of the scenes, for instance when he jumps aboard a helicopter with a drunken oaf of a pilot who's intent is to fly straight into a storm above the ocean and escaping the euruption of an Icelandic volcano in a small skoda with a driver who is a stranger to him and does not speak fluent