| The 2009 movie Up in the Air with George Clooney playing the starring part of business's layoff expert Ryan Bingham focuses on interpersonal relationships.
Bingham is employed to help ease the layoff of long-term employees around the country. He takes his job very seriously and is excited about the 290 days he is going to spend away. However, within this period of time his world changes drastically. On the way, both he and his colleague - a college graduate - Natalie played brilliantly by A. Kendrick understand that they lack a lot of 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 businessman whose personal life is made up by random dates with good-looking women at numerous airports where he is a frequent visitor. His wallet overloaded with plastic cards from airlines which accumulate his mileage, hotel status perk cards that let him avoid dealing with displeased passengers and go straight to the front, and countless room keys that are saved up and cause him to always try more than one key before finally opening his hotel room's door. Detached from his family members, Ryan is the brother who exists but cannot be counted on. His job has become his family. He contemplates whether he should, or really wants to, go to his sister's wedding ceremony – the little girl whose life he should have been involved with after the death of their father.
The story includes many plot lines, details and sequences that need to be seen fresh to get a full understanding of the movie. What you may initially consider a comedy about a snobbish guy who eventually turns into a pleasant person unafraid to demonstrate his feelings and emotions is actually a mix of both comedy and drama.
G. Clooney performs very well and makes his character very true-to-life. He is good at playing both the arrogant workaholic obsessed with his job and career prospects and the sensitive romantic able to demonstrate genuine feelings of love and sympathy to people around. The dramatic changes the character undergoes throughout the movie are interesting to trace and make you think about the true values of human life. |
