Compared with the "Her" I watched last week, the plot of this play is actually more old-fashioned. [Walter is Life Magazine's Negative Asset Manager (negative here refers to negatives, but also implies negative connotations). He is an ordinary or even a bit of a coward, who dares not take the slightest risk of life. It can be said that he is like a rigid train, driving along the tracks to the end of life. The highlight of his life is the eccentric daydreams that haunt him when he is called.
An accidental accident made him follow in the footsteps of the famous photographer Sean on a journey of walking away, trying all kinds of wonderful things in this world. So like a child who just saw how colorful the world is, he rediscovered the joy of life, and in the process, love quickly sprouted with his female colleague who had been secretly in love...] (And in 2004, he starred in Jennifer Aniston. "Along Came Polly" is surprisingly similar!)
The positioning of finding love in the process of finding yourself and finding the true meaning of life is vulgar enough, but it does not affect the standout of this drama at all.
First of all, as a comedy, it is of course the most important thing to be funny. The laughs of this drama are dense, full, fresh, fashionable, and rarely pornographic and vulgar. It is the most enjoyable one I have watched after "Crazy Primitives".
Come back to the water adventure, from Greenland to Iceland to the Himalayas, all of which are magnificent and beautiful...Water controls the skateboard like a hot wheel to fly on the winding 18-kilometer road in Iceland; Sean stands on the back of the helicopter Glimpses of the erupting volcano... But someone who has never done any physical training playing football at the high altitudes of the Himalayas? Well, it's all Superman...
Among them, a dialogue between Sean and Water about the snow leopard is even more classic:
Sean O'Connell: They call the snow leopard the ghost cat. Never lets itself be seen.
Walter Mitty: Ghost cat.
Sean O'Connell: Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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.
Love and the heroine don't play a big role in this drama, but the man who hates the company played by Adam Scott is very happy and quite brilliant.
At the end of the film, when Sean's gift to Water finally appeared on the cover of the final edition of Life magazine, it was a very touching moment. Maybe this was just Sean's expression of gratitude, or maybe it was the cosmopolitan family who pursued beauty as a profession. Those who have come here are conveying their ultimate understanding of the true meaning of life.
After finally experiencing the real adventure, Water no longer daydreams, but it may not be difficult to travel once or twice, so how should the real life continue? The film wisely does not attempt to answer this question.
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