![]() ![]() Mitty attempts to recover the photo by seeking out the photographer, thus spending the story traveling from one locale to another in increasingly perilous and adventurous ways.īut his path is about more than merely discovering life by experiencing excitement and travel - Mitty's father died when he was a teenager, and Mitty was forced to get a job to help support his family, and from that moment on he shrank into himself and became so afraid of loss that he stopped enjoying life. ![]() The story follows Mitty's necessary journey of self-discovery, with an interesting context involving Life Magazine being bought out and ending its print run (which actually happened in 1972, but in the film is only happening now in 2013) with a final issue that needs a particular much-buzzed-about but somehow misplaced photo by a famous photographer portrayed with humorous understatement by Sean Penn. Stiller's Mitty is unappreciated by a lot of people, yes, but the person who most underestimates and under-appreciates him is Mitty himself. Stiller instead examines the life of a man with much potential who is merely squandering it himself while acting as if it is the external forces interfering in his ability to live a more meaningful life. ![]() ![]() Gone is the notion of a main character who is simplistically weak and put-upon by external emasculating factors - namely, the shrill female caricatures that dominated Thurber's original tale and Kaye's movie. Ben Stiller's newest version is superior to the original film, and in fact to Thurber's story. ![]()
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