After sensible Thank you for smoking and Juno, the third offering is Up in the Air from the director Jason Reitman. Just like the previous two movies, this movie also make me think a bit.
I will just give a brief about the movie. Its about a corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham and his travels. His job can be considered as one of the difficult one, to sack people and make people to take the package which is offered by the company, make the people to understand the importance of going forward. He enjoys his job and he is successful. Natalie Keener a promising young woman who joins the company proposes a new way of sacking people ie doing it online instead of travelling all around the world to do it. She proposes it, which infact reduces the cost of the company to a larger extent. Ryan is lone in his house, and when he come back he wont find any family for him or he never wanted a family with him. He casually starts a relationship with another frequent flyer named Alex, who balances her real family life with her relatioship with Ryan.
The movie is innovative in its own way. Ryan is also a motivational speaker who gives speeches about living alone and makes people understand the relationships are making you to carry more weight which reduces his efficiency. He is right in his course of affairs. Where he travels all over the world and gets only maximum of 15-30 days to stay in his apartment. Ryan can be considered as a practical face of human being. We must understand how Ryan becomes like this, what I feel about it is that he would have been lone from the beginning, but when he started out a casual relatioship with Alex we can see the change in perceptions and realization that its not just the work which makes him happy. What I feel is that its not a decision taken intentionally to fill backback just with work but Ryan just forced it to him. Ryan is a good conversationalist rather than just limiting him to be a person who doesnt want to see himself and other people taking responsibilities. This movie doesnt have a happy ending, but which gives us lot of promises in the end where we can see a changed Ryan, who understands the importance of family and importance of spending time with them. Am sure every human being goes through the stage of life Ryan goes through.
