Up in the air!

There are few actors, whose voice I have admired for some time. Some of them are Robin williams, Josh hartnet, Matt damon, Heath ledger, Alan rickman and George clooney. Besides his appearance Clooney's voice is certainly a strong aspect of his personality and he puts it to maximum effect in this movie "Up in the air". This movie starts with a sound track that sounds almost similar to Sade's "Smooth operator" and proceeds at a leisure pace.

It gives you the feel that you have peeked into the protagonist's life for about two hours. His initial state; his lifestyle his views about love,marriage and life etc all are presented in a nutshell right at the beginning of the movie with excellent blend of visuals and his voice over. He is a guy who is disinclined towards any sort of commitment and vehemently vouches for it. In this scenario in comes two characters (of course they are ladies) who are like poles apart in their approach to life. One is a young girl who joins the same firm as that of George clooney and the second one is a middle aged woman who develops a casual relationship with him. All three's expectations, aspirations and emotions travel through a maze in which their careers their social equations all go for a toss. The beauty is all the above are set against the backdrop of the recession hit economy.

No where this movie is judgmental nor patronising. It beautifully depicts the inertia inside one's mind towards change and in subsequent frames the pain and agony associated with that change. The dialogues are top notch and if I were an important member of the academy I would certainly handover the golden statuette for best adapted screenplay to whoever the screen writer is. Though the situations are neither extraordinary nor unexpected, the dialogues and acting take all the scenes onto to a different plane. In the end though it doesn't have a conventional ending, one would have got a fair idea of what the movie was all about "Change". It leaves us where we come to realise the changes in the lives of the characters till then and then accepting that their lives will again change subsequently even after the end credits roll. In a nutshell no adrenaline pumping action, no over the top reactions but excellent concoction of emotion and present society's aberrations.(TR's touch. How is it?)

Verdict: Wanna bitter, sweet feeling? Watch this!!!