On The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Different layers of reality intertwined with pseudoreality. A film that tries to capture a life of a daydreaming negative assets manager, ostensibly an expert in photographic film, captivated by a woman, searching for Sean O'Connell, a photographer who wants to take meaningful, larger-than-life pictures.

Ironically, it was Sean who gave the quintessential idea that life is not captured in photographs. What Mitty saw in a video clip that he had to pause to take a look at the shot of Cheryl could be unreal. What the characters found in Instagram, Facebook, Google, eHarmony might be fabricated or reconstructed reality. Mitty's adventures in Greenland, Island, Central Asia, and the Himalayas may be a large-scale daydream. 

What, then, is real? Our memory in which we store the feeling of every moment that will somehow compose our dreams (or daydreams), construct our perception to the world, create our standards, our conditioning? Reality is the experience, that is captured, not by our senses, not by the object, but by that very moment. And that's how our lives become a part of the big secret of the world.

Walter Mitty: When are you going to take it?

Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.
Walter Mitty: Stay in it?
Sean O'Connell: Yeah. Right there. Right here.

PS: I was really thinking that Mitty's adventures were just a part of his zoning out until the eHarmony guy came into the picture and proved that everything was real. But then I realized that everything was not. I was just only watching a film.