Up In The Air

The Beauty of Up In The Air lies in its immense topicality. Rooted in the present continuous, the film takes up the most pressing concern of today's corporate culture - downsizing - and dares Thurs look at what lies behind the dreaded pink slips. In short, who are the people (are they heartless souls?) Who hand out the pink slips and who are the people who are handed the pink slips (do they all jump off bridges?). But the film is not about corporate ethics alone. It is essentially an incisive look into the mores of modern living where success, independence and White-Collared wonderment have become synonymous with "a cocoon of self-banishment" (read isolation, inability to connect and build life-long relationships), as the Rightly film maker suggests. 

Based on the novel by Walter Kirn and directed by Jason Reitman who gave us Juno, the revisionists have tea pregnancy film, Up In The Air George Clooney has been vying for the Oscars this year. Not forgetting too Anna Kendrick, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Clooney's cool and collected Ryan Bingham is absolutely riveting as he goes about the length and breadth of recession-hit America firing people with his pep talk is "emptying the bagpack 'and cutting loose. No body seems to mind losing their jobs on the Career Transition Counselor, that's what he's called, has delivered the blow, ever so softly and sophisticatedly. Clooney is not too struck by conscience calls "Because all they wants to do is fulfill his life's ambition of accumulating 10 million miles, flying Thurs different destinations. A complete nomad, he savours his disconnect and hates any form of Domesticity. So much so, he asks his young colleague, Natalie (Anna Kendrick) to sell him the idea of marriage. And when she does, with some talk about stability, companionship, kids and family, he does not buy the idea at all. Twenty-first Century Man, did we say!Read More Story,http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/moviereview/5593306.cms

Up In The Air