Movie Review of Up in the Air
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey
Review:
After Oscar nomination, director Jason Reitman comes up with another masterpiece with Academy Award winner George Clooney. This is one of the best work of George Clooney. Up In the Air can be placed in Comedy – Drama genre.
Up In the Air is based upon Walter Kim's novel with George Clooney playing as Ryan Bingham whose main work is to lay people off from various companies and he does this by flying around the country. Living and enjoying a great life which is actually solitary, Ryan Bingham chases his personal goal i.e. flying ten million miles, a milestone set by airlines. Whatever he needs to live his solitary life is packed in his suitcase. He is very successful when it comes to controlling his life. And it is his success that enables him to even lecture others how to do so. He has also managed himself very well in keeping himself away from emotional blips.
However in Up in the Air, Ryan faces a change as his destiny when first he meets Alex played by Farminga, who is a stranger that is just like him. They meet quit often but accidently with a sort of relationship which endangers to bring an emotional side of relationship in Ryan’s life.
Then there is another change in Ryan’s life when another office mate Natalie played by Anna Kendrick, joins as a new employee and figures out that there is a cheap way of doing Ryan’s job i.e. by doing it over the internet instead of flying around the country which is costing company very high. Obviously Ryan disagrees to this idea which in turn results in taking Natalie to his job in order to show her that how effective it is to do it properly.
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