Up in the Air DVD Review
It’s almost a role that George Clooney was born to play. In Up in the Air, Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizer, a man whose job it is to break the life changing news to people across America that their “positions are no longer available”. Although the story that this script is adapted from was written a few years ago, the current economic environment has lent a new weight to it. Bingham’s home is in the air, chasing a target of air miles that only six other people have ever achieved. He packs like a ninja and is turned on by platinum cards. It’s that particular encounter in which we are introduced to Alex (Vera Farmiga) who is almost a carbon copy of Bingham, at one point uttering the words “Just think of me as you but with a vagina”. Bingham finds himself developing feelings for her and relationships are … There’s more
