In "Up
in the Air" the main characters played by George Clooney and Anna Kendrick
(who plays a psychologist), travel in airplane to several cities in a short
time. The function of these characters in the company which they work is to dismiss
people. Bosses that do not want to face their employees in this situation hire
this company to dismiss them. This causes a deep suffering in employees.
The movie
deals with contemporary themes, such as fear for commitment, and difficulties
of human relationships. Another great theme in the movie is the dehumanization
brought due to technological.
A good
issue in the movie to be discussed is when the company that Ryan works changed
the face to face dismissal; instead
they started using of video conferencing to dismiss people; this would
lower costs of travel of the company a lot. Despite the great savings that the
company would have with this new tool, the changing was not efficient due to
the emotional issue and great impact on people's lives that this situation
causes.
It is
possible to realize that company did not think about people’ reaction and
feelings when they made this decision, only in profits. It is hard to see any
of the characters wondering how the employees would feel about the new way of
dismissal. George Clooney character dislikes the new idea; however, he was
thinking about his personal interests. The movie clearly shows the scenario of
nowadays. Individualism and own enrichment
I loved this movie, I could say that this movie is one of the best I had watched in a while because it's full of emotions, reflections, all about real life, and as Victor mentioned it also deals with relationship. How fragile human can be when they lose their ground.
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