Movie Up in the air: fire or being fired

Movie Up in the Air: Fire, or be fired

Whether you've ever been fired before or not, everyone can understood the stress of losing a job involuntarily. How are you supposed to tell your family that you will have no more paychecks if you are the man of the household? How can you afford to be unemployed if you are a single mom with a mortgage? And how can you swallow the agony and start over from the beginning after being let go in return for 30 years of service to a company?

Sometimes, losing a job is like a death in the family when it comes to the stress it causes.

In the movie "Up in the Air" George Clooney stars a white-collared elite, Ryan, whose job is to fly to different companies all over the states to fire the employees on the behalves of their bosses. Ryan's profession is unique in movies as I've never seen other main characters of his career. At the very beginning, the movie showed us several scenes in which people are either angry, sad, shocked, dumbfounded or simply devastated to face Ryan and the fact that they were out of a job.

In the movie 'Up in the Air', George Clooney stars as the white-collar elite Ryan, whose job is to fly all over the states to different companies and to fire people on behalf of their bosses. Ryan's profession is unique for film; I've never seen a movie depicting characters with this career. At the very beginning, the movie shows us several scenes in which people are angry, sad, shocked, dumbfounded, or simply devastated to face Ryan and the fact that they are out of a job.

What's Ryan's view about his job? Is he just a cold-blooded Yo-yo? I would say Ryan is still a warm-hearted person despite of his irrelevant, professional attitude on the surface to those who got fired by him. He taught Natalie everything he could think of even though he was reluctant to train her at first and fully awared that Natalie's software would eventually threat his own career. He takes people at their most fragile, and sets them adrift. That's the dignity he thinks in his job.

What is Ryan's view of his job? Is he just a cold-blooded yo-yo? I would say Ryan is still a warmhearted person, despite the detached, professional attitude he displays to those he fires. He teaches Natalie everything he can think of, even though he is at first reluctant to train her and is fully aware that Natalie's software would eventually be a threat to his own job. He takes people at their most fragile, and sets them adrift. That's the dignity he attributes to his job.

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