Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Up In The Air - 2009 - 3½ Stars

Actors: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga
Director: Jason Reitman

Up In The Air, and this may sound absurd, could have been a really great film. It has a solid hook, it's ostensibly about Our Time and the way We Live and Should We Go On Living This Way, but unfortunately it suffers from one problem: it's (probably) a big budget film. This requires the director to pander to his audience - what could have been a film that explores one man's story and at the same time suggests all of our stories is instead bracketed with footage of real-life people discussing how it is to live in Our Time.

My high praise for the film is that even though it is populated with archetypes, those archetypes felt 'true'.

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