Belated-Review: Up in the Air
Film: Up in the Air Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, and Jason Bateman. Director: Jason Reitman Screenwriter: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner An Oscar nominated film sparks so many thoughts in my mind, including the key one: "Well, it must be good!" Was it? I'm not sure. When first asked what I thought about the film, I said tentatively that I liked it. The theme had taken me by surprise a bit, and I wasn't sure what kind of message it was sending. But after I thought about it for a few hours I came to realize that while the film was entertaining, the contradictions within it were too perplexing for me to give it a whole-hearted positive response. Let's take Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick), a young woman, fresh out of Harvard, who creates a computer program that promises to save her company money by delivering bad news via the internet rather than in person. You see...