Up in the Air, With Nowhere to Go. What’s Your Lay-Off Story?

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/5372/up_in_the_air_with_nowhere_to_go._whats_your_lay-off_story/

Monday January 4 1:49 pm

By Stephen Franklin

They cry. They fumble for words. They are furious. They crumble into pieces. They fret about waking up tomorrow without a job at their age, at their job level or with their mound of bills to pay.

They feel abandoned, cheated, destroyed, dumped, ruined. One woman calmly says she’ll take her life. And she does—later on in the movie.

In the movie theater’s darkness, you flinch at the power of these laid-off workers’ despair, and you don’t doubt for a second that Up In The Air is THE story of our economic miasma.

Indeed, the movie is apparently surprising Hollywood because of Americans’ embrace of a tale about a corporate ax man played by George Clooney that is so grim and so close to the painful reality for millions.

Gloom isn’t the only emotion stirred. There are laughs, and romance and the ax man eventually has doubts about his lonely task in town after town and with no end in sight to the corporate bloodletting.

But the film's theme touches a deep nerve, and one reason why audiences may have accepted it is the documentary-like presentations of the newly laid off in Up In the Air, which was released on Christmas.

FULL story at link.

[Blue Owl]

1. It's on my list of movies to see

Looking forward to it...