Talk about
George Clooney giving a real great performance acting the role of a real loser
who gets excited for having all kinds of gold cards for airlines, car rentals
and hotels of all kinds.
Well this
guy meets with a woman who gets off about the same distinctive traits, they
show to each other their cards collection and – obviously – they screw each
other all over this country, they actually vary their business trips just to
have time enough to s…..w.
When he
goes to her home – in Chicago to be with her, he finds out that she’s married
with children and shows her anger for him finding out that she’s actually “normal”,
in fact she tells to him that he’s an empty man who doesn’t even have a home to
go to when he doesn’t have business travels to do anymore, that’s actually when
he’s given the platinum frequent flyer American Airlines for having reached the
1.5 million miles with this airline.
His job is
to go companies that must reduce their employees and when he’s in the same
position (be
laid off) he’s
given the opportunity to travel with the specialist – young woman – who had
done the analysis of expenses vs. income of the company he’s been working for a
number of years, that had him reach hyper-preferred status with all the service
provider companies he had been using for decades.
He had his
way to painfully show to this woman what it means to work without any concern,
waste of time and have fun doing it.
The woman
was engaged with a young successful guy, who broke the engagement by text
message, which together with her poor performance in letting go of the dozens
of people being asked “to move on” and “consider their losing their job as a
real opportunity to finally do what they love to do since they were kids, this
entire situation gives to the loser Clooney the possibility to remain employed
BUT with the painful realization that everyone needs a real home to go to when
the work is done.
I rate this
movie a good set of Irish whiskeys enjoyed in the company of “easy friends” who
aren’t demanding with what they like and can give fun comments to this
lighthearted movie.
- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/jan/14/up-in-the-air-review
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/movies/04upinair.html
- https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/up_in_the_air_2009/
- https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/up-in-the-air-2009
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