Mitty pumped me up

I watched the trailer some time ago, and I immediately jugded it as a good movie. And finally the HD version came up a few days ago, I watched it and loved it helplessly. What a heart-pumping movie experience. It makes me want to get up right now, get my backpack, go to the airport, pick a random destination and just go.

There is so much product placement in it, but who cares! If it is a good movie and the product fits into the context, then it doesn't really matter. Another movie of this kind with almost excessive product placement that I can think of is Cast Away, another really good movie. 

I saw some reviews and many complain about the lack of logic behind the storyline and it is a movie packed with clichés. But I think those clichés are good clichés. The whole movie is very well shot, especially those shots of the scenery. The visual component of the movie perfectly conveys the magnificence of mother nature and the sense of adventure. 

A good movie needs also a good movie score. The soundtracks of Walter Mitty are what give the movie the "umff", the edge that makes the movie so damn heart-pumping. These songs make you feel like a hero, an adventurer, like Indiana Jones. Listening to them actually motivated me go to school yesterday. Yesterday there was only one class and I had decided to skip it. But these songs changed my mind. Next time when I travel, I will make sure that I have these songs in the playlist of my phone. 

Just like what Richard said in The Beach, the paradise is not a place you can go but how you feel for a moment in your life when you are part of something. Many people travel for the food, for the monuments, for the photos, etc.. I travel for the stories, for the experiences, for the moments of paradise. Watching Mitty, many memories flashed back in my mind : the starting line of Annecy triathlon, stucked on the mountain top at night with snow and cold, the thick early morning fog during my walk from Blois to Orléan, sitting in the plane heading to Mumbai with my one-way ticket, the hitchhike from Tunis to Tozeur...

I travel for cool stories and I have already accquired plenty.