| Based on the novel by Walter Kirn, Up in the Air with George Clooney playing the leading part og firm's downsizing expert Ryan Bingham features the complexity of interpersonal relationships.
Bingham is taken on to help ease the layoff of long-term employees all over the USA. He is serious about showing his best prefessional qualities and is excited about the 290 days he is going to spend away from home. However, within this period of time his world changes dramatically. Along the way, both he and his college graduate colleague Natalie played by Anna Kendrick find out that they lack a great many crucial things in their lives and have to learn how to become better people.
Clooney's Bingham is a lonesome business person whose private life is made up by random dates with attractive girls 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 frustrated travelers and more straight to the front, and numerous room keys that are saved up and make him always try more than one before finally opening his hotel suite's door. Detached from his family members, Ryan is the brother who exisits somewhere but cannot give a shoulder to cry on. His job subsitutes family for him. He contemplates whether he should, or really wants to, go to his sister's wedding ceremony – the girl whose life he should have been involved with after the death of their dad.
The story includes a lot of plot and sequences that should to be viewed fresh to have a clear understanding of the movie. What you may initially consider a witty comedy about a snobbish guy who eventually turns into a nice man full of heart and emotion is actually a mix of comedy and drama.
G. Clooney gives a brilliant performance and makes his character very realistic. He is excellent at playing both the self-important workaholic obsessed by his job and career prospects and the vulnerable romantic able to show 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 genuine values of human life. |
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