Up in the Air

Up in the Air

This is a story about a man whose job is to fly around the country to inform people that they are fired. He meets a young ambitious woman that joins his company and who wants to change the system. Her ideas clash with his personal lifestyle choices. Interesting isn’t it???

This is a great flick, this movie will reach out to you at so many levels and in so many ways that its just scary.

There are two philosophies on life presented in this movie. There is Ryan who believes that relationships are the heaviest objects you can put in your backpack. Relationships weigh you down in life. There’s too much negotiations and compromise that you have to do. You can’t be truly happy with all these attachments with other people. As he likes to say, if you are not moving you are dying.

In a way we can see he is right. Relationships can be hard; you have to work hard at it. It’s a drag sometimes. The people you are the closest too end up hurting you the most. We’ve all felt this at sometime in our life.

This is a story about a man whose job is to fly around the country to inform people that they are fired. He meets a young ambitious woman that joins his company and who wants to change the system. Her ideas clash with his personal lifestyle choices. Interesting isn’t it???

This is a great flick, this movie will reach out to you at so many levels and in so many ways that its just scary.

There are two philosophies on life presented in this movie. There is Ryan who believes that relationships are the heaviest objects you can put in your backpack. Relationships weigh you down in life. There’s too much negotiations and compromise that you have to do. You can’t be truly happy with all these attachments with other people. As he likes to say, if you are not moving you are dying.

In a way we can see he is right. Relationships can be hard; you have to work hard at it. It’s a drag sometimes. The people you are the closest too end up hurting you the most. We’ve all felt this at sometime in our life.

e see in Ryan’s life that he has no close relationships. 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. Natalie on the other hand can’t help but being attached to other people. She has fond dreams of being married someday and having children. In fact she believes her life is not complete without this. You also see this when she has to fire people. She can’t help but feel very bad for these people and can’t detach herself from the situation of seeing these people’s lives destroyed right in front of her.

So at the end of the movie you have to ask yourself, are attachments and relationships worth the effort?? Is it your possessions, dreams or is it the love in your life that keeps you going??

The answer will surprise you!!!