![]() As they say you can replace your possessions but you can't replace your loved ones. Is it your possessions or is it the love of your family? For me nothing can compare to the love I get from my family and friends. At the end of the day what keeps you going in life. The answer I came to be is yes, they are. So at the end of the movie you have to ask yourself, are attachments and relationships worth the effort. She can't help but feel very bad for these people and can't detach herself from the situation of seeing these peoples lives destroyed right in front of her. You also see this when she has to fire people. In fact she believes her life is not complete without this. She has fond dreams of being married someday and having children. Natalie on the other hand can't help but being attached to other people. He has no girlfriends, he has no plans to ever marry or have children, he has no close friends, he hardly has a relationship with his two sisters, he fires dozens of people daily and feels nothing for them, and he seems just fine with that. We see in Ryan's life that he has no close relationships. We've all felt this at sometime in our life. The people you are the closest too end up hurting you the most. Relationships can be hard you have to work hard at it. As he likes to say, if you are not moving you are dieing. You can't be truly happy with all these attachments with other people. There's too much negotiations and compromise that you have to do. There is Ryan who believes that relationships are the heaviest objects you can put in your backpack. There are two philosophies on life presented in this movie. So what is this movie all about? It's about life. Is it possible that Natalie and Alex can change his whole outlook on life? That's obviously where this movie is headed. Ryan enjoys being with her so much is seems that he is reconsidering his whole theory on not being attached to other people. Natalie seems to be just like Ryan in life only in female form. During the course of the movie they keep in contact and hook up as much as possible. Alex is another business room that Ryan meets on the road and has a fling with. ![]() Natalie on the other hand is young, naïve, and looks unsure of what to do most of the time. Ryan is an older man who is calm and full of confidence in his job and in his life. Their totally different personalities and philosophies on life clash and these provides for most of the funny and witty dialogue of the movie. Ryan's boss, played by Jason Bateman, pairs Natalie with Ryan so that Ryan can show her the ropes. Ryan is not happy about this and thus there is conflict between the two. Natalie is a young college graduate with big ideas that will change the way Ryan will do his job. Anna Kendrick and Vera Farmiga play Natalie and Alex in the movie and their characters provide a challenge to Ryan's way of life. Your different attachments in life weigh you down. Through his travels he gives speeches at different hotels about putting your life in a backpack and feeling that weight. Ryan explains that he spends some 300 plus days traveling and a miserable 43 days at home. Then there are people that react with a sadness and desperation that really makes you feel their pain. Most of the people react in an angry fashion and it's almost comical in way they show these montages. I will have to warn you not to watch this movie if you have just been fired, because the movie is littered with scenes of people getting fired. It's an art form that Ryan has perfected over the years and he is really good at it. The movie stars George Clooney as Ryan, his job is to travel around the country and fire people personally and hopefully tries to help them move on with their lives. ![]() It's one of those rare movies that is fun to watch and makes you think at the end. It's funny and witty and has some good dramatic moments at the end that really hit you in the stomach. A lot of critics are putting it on their lists for top movie of the year and I will have to agree with them. Up In the Air Movie Review I finally got around to seeing the soon to be Oscar nominated movie, Up In the Air today.
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