George Clooney is charming, wry, funny and beautiful in Up in the Air. This is a very powerful film, not quite an indie film and not quite a studio offering either.
It is snappy and well written with great direction and some terrific performances.
Someone will win an Oscar somewhere associated with this film.
The film did disturb me. It made corporate layoffs feel sinister and ugly – which they are - but they did seem so mechanical and outsourced. Laying someone off is the biggest failure in management. That is how I always felt. You hired them because you believed in your plan. When you fire someone it is very painful and the worst thing ever to do in business. It is ultimately your failure not the employee being fired.
Corporate layoffs are the main reason I will never go work for a big company again.