By Piya Sinha-Roy
LOS ANGELES, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Human disconnect, social
isolation and the transition to an increasingly digital era come
crashing together in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,"
actor-director Ben Stiller's personal take on a classic story.
"Walter Mitty," out in theaters on Christmas Day, finds
Stiller not just reimagining the character made famous from
author James Thurber's 1939 short story of the same name in The
New Yorker magazine, but redefining what Walter Mitty has come
to represent in popular culture.
Walter Mitty is described by the Merriam-Webster dictionary
as "a commonplace unadventurous person who seeks escape from
reality through daydreaming," and is often used to describe
people who imagine themselves greater than they are in reality.
Stiller's Walter Mitty is different. A middle-aged man
trapped by financial responsibility, Walter is a photo archivist
at the dwindling Life magazine, a job that is being replaced by
machines. Shy, sheltered and reserved, he is isolated from the
environment around him.
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