| The 2009 movie Up in the Air with George Clooney playing the leading part og corporate layoff expert Ryan Bingham concentrates on interpersonal relationships.
Bingham is employed to help ease the layoff of long-term employees around the country. He is serious about demonstrating his best prefessional qualities and is excited about the 290 days he is going to be away from home. Yet, duting this time his world undergoes dramatic changes. Along the way, both he and his colleague - a college graduate - Natalie played by A. Kendrick realize that they lack a great many important things in their lives and have to learn how to become better people open to love and heartbreak.
Clooney's Bingham is a lonely business person whose private life is made up by random dates with beautiful women at numerous airports where he is a frequent visitor. His wallet overloaded with credit cards from airlines which accumulate his mileage, hotel status perk cards which let him avoid meeting frustrated travellers and more straight to the front, and numerous room keys that are saved up and make him constantly try more than one key before finally letting him in. Having been detached from his family and relatives for many years, Ryan is the brother who exists but cannot be relied on. His job has turn into his new family. He contemplates if he should, or really would like to, attend his sister's wedding – the little girl whose life he should have been involved with after the death of their father.
The film includes a lot of plot lines, details and sequences that need to be watched fresh to get a better understanding of the film. What you may initially consider a comedy about a haughty guy who eventually turns into a pleasant man unafraid to demonstrate his feelings and emotions is actually a combination of both comedy and drama.
G. Clooney performs very well and makes his character very realistic. He is good at playing both the supercilious workaholic obsessed by his career and the sensitive romantic able to display true feelings of love and sympathy to people around. The alterations he undergoes throughout the movie are interesting to trace and make you think about the genuine values of human life. |
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