I was so nervous about not being with my family today, because I've never experienced not being with my family for Christmas. A sort of thing that I really have just taken for granted all these years. Let me tell you I don't think I'll ever take it for granted again. I miss them so very much today. But I have managed to survive wouldn't you know it.
So I always knew that today besides making a little dinner for myself and my roommate Justin and his "boyfriend" the one other thing that I was going to do this Christmas was go and watch a movie. Now this may sound trivial to all of you out there reading this, but I put a lot of thought into what would be my Christmas movie this year. And since I was away from my family and out here in sunny California I decided that my Christmas movie had to uplift me and make me really appreciate being alive. So really there was no other movie that I felt was going to do this right than THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY.
Really and truly all I want to say about this movie is GO AND SEE IT. That really is the most important thing that I could say, but you know I have more so just grin and bare it because here it comes. Now leading up to this movie there had been a lot of talk, and the critics have had a lot to say about it and I tried my damnedest to not read or watch anything about the movie. I say I tried because ultimately I failed spectacularly on that end as I often do.
I never really read a full review or anything but just partials here and there, and from what I've been reading critics have not really dug MITTY. A critic has never made me want to or not want to see a movie, but sometimes things that I read in a review get inside my head and it leads to me overly criticizing a movie and I just didn't want MITTY to be that movie. After all it was my most anticipated movie of the year.
I'm going to say right now MITTY did not disappoint. It hit all the right notes for me and to say that I loved the movie would be the biggest of understatements. Now maybe when I revisit it I'll find things I don't like or choices that I think could have been different, but on this day, it was just the right medicine for me to take.
I know some maybe say that some of the daydream sequences were a little much, and it's to corny, or feel goodie. And to all those people I guess all I can say about that is..... GO FUCK YOURSELF! Because I don't care about any of that, because sometimes I think that there aren't enough really really good corny or feel goodie movies out there being made.
I feel that at any given time people need a movie like this. A movie that makes you feel that magic you used to feel when you were a kid about life. A movie that reminds you that there is a whole big and beautiful world out there. Filled with so many wonderful and special things that our hearts can't even begin to contain all of it that is out there. This is a movie that reminds you that no matter what happens or is happening in your life it is never to late to get up off the bench and enter the game.
I really do think that it's important that all of us and humans always be exploring and always reaching. And honestly you don't have to go halfway across the world to see that beauty. There are so many things around us that we just never take the time to stop and realize and enjoy the fact that we are in a very special moment.
I am always searching for myself or my own thoughts or the way I feel about things in movies. And some of my favorites have always been the ones that I most relate to at that very moment in time. I just kept telling myself that I was going to love this movie because I am MITTY and at this moment in time I am full of this feeling of adventure. But as I watched the movie I realized one important fact that made me love this movie even more, and even has me teary eyed as I write this.
I AM NOT WALTER MITTY. Outside of his crazy affinity to drift off into a day dream I am not this character. I am Kathryn Hahn's character, MITTY's sister. The simple fact is that my sister is WALTER MITTY. And those of you that have heard me talk about my sister probably won't quite understand when you see this. But I'm telling you the person she is, the things she's done and not gotten to do, and the person that I get to be because of her. Well I'll just say that she'll always be WALTER MITTY to me. And when I think about that fact, I know that this movie will always be one of my favorites.
Anyway, I hope you all have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and you get to take a little time to read this, and then a little bit more time to go to the movies and watch this. To all of my FRIENDS and FAMILY out there I love and miss you all very much.
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