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Up in the Air adalah film Amerika Serikat tahun 2009 yang disutradarai oleh Jason Reitman dan ditulis oleh Reitman dan Sheldon Turner. Film ini adalah adaptasi dari novel berjudul sama karangan Walter Kirn. Film ini mempunyai judul yang hampir sama dengan film animasi pada tahun yang sama, Up buatan Pixar. Film ini menerima total kritikan 89% dari Rotten Tomatoes, cukup jauh dari film animasi Up yang menerima rating sebesar 99% dari Rotten Tomatoes

Sinopsis

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) adalah orang yang bepergian ke berbagai tempat di seluruh dunia dan mengatur proses PHK atas nama bos-bos yang terlalu pengecut untuk melakukannya sendiri. Ryan menjalani kehidupan yang bebas, dia jarang mengunjungi keluarganya dan lebih suka hidup sendiri. Dalam perjalanannya, Dia bertemu Alex (Vera Farmiga) dan Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick). Masuknya mereka berdua dalam kehidupannya membuatnya mempertanyakan kembali pandangan hidupnya.

This movie is pretty much a mind opener. If you are working in an office, possibly for years and getting comfortable with your place, getting fired is not the type of thing you had in mind. You thought maybe, ‘They can never replace me. I work for goddamn 10 years and I have been a loyal staff.’ You forget that  you’re not the one who makes that decision. But if it happens, I imagined, something in your mind explode. Your whole belief system got really messed up and you don’t really know what to do. You got family to support and bills you have to pay. What are you going to do?

Think this : what if I didn’t work in an office and say build my own business? would I be happier? You probably asked this to yourself. I might get a job in this company not for following my dreams. But because I got bills to pay. You sell your dreams for a huge pile of money. Just a thought in mind. But there are people who love their routinity and daily job that they didn’t see this coming. But in another angle, being fired, just might be a chance for us to re-think again about following our dreams. A lot of us is being cynical at start before we go to that road, the road to our dreams. And because of that we forget, and then maybe getting trapped in daily routinity you don’t like. And at that moment you wonder how this happen. It’s a cycle that I might say, in our minds maybe even everyday.

my favorite quote in this movie :

Ryan Bingham: You know why kids love athletes?
Bob: Because they screw lingerie models.
Ryan Bingham: No, that’s why we love athletes. Kids love them because they follow their dreams

Another message I got from this movie was, being part of something and shared your life with people you love, is probably something you’ll cherish. Guess it’s sound corny, but I must say it’s true. Okay so you have a great career, you travel a lot. But in the end, it’s not worth it if you doing it alone without somebody to cheer your life to (for example). I guess that’s why Ryan Bingham is doing his job perfectly without getting sensitive and in tears like his protege, it’s because he’s forgot being part of something, comfortable living alone independently. Life is unpredictable, nothing stays the same. In the mean time, you can live the life unpredictably with people you care about.


“Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s *because* they sat there that they were able to do it.”

“If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life… were you alone? Life’s better with company. “