Directed by: Jason Reitman
Run time: 109 min
The story of a man ready to make a connection
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a heartless bastard, he travels around the country firing people with near zero remorse at all, even in this kind of economy. It appears that Ryan works for a company hired by another company who doesn't have the courage to fire their own employee. Does such company ever existed? I don't know for sure.
Ryan is a man who flies around the country and collect airline mileage (frequent flyer). I am not familiar with it and find the concept of collecting mileage as something new and exciting. Surely it is amazing if you have traveled 10 million miles and have your name printed on a very special card. That makes you feel important or different and perhaps you can have special services for that like entering VIP lounge and free flow of snacks and cookies.
Ryan loves his job, he loves being up in the air, he loves being all alone all by himself without any baggage to carry. But that was about to change. His days of plenty (traveling and firing people) is about to be over when Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick), propose a new system, firing people via internet.
Well, that is just plain rude, firing people via internet is like breaking up with your boyfriend/girlfriend via SMS, that is just inappropriate.
But since the company that hires Ryan doesn't have the balls to fire people (that's why they sent Ryan) and find that sort of 'solution' could save money, they began to ponder on that revolution.
This is a threat to Ryan who cannot and will not like to be grounded. So Ryan and Natalie must travel across the country since Ryan will have to 'train' Natalie on how to fire people professionally.
In the hand of mediocre director Natalie and Ryan will have a spark, but don't worry Jason Reitman is not a mediocre director, he manages to escape all the cliches of this sort of film. The rest of the story is hard to predict, if you predict that Ryan will finally settle with Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga), the female version of him who also share the same life philosophy with him, you are wrong. If you think that Ryan will 'repent' then you are wrong too. The ending is very nice and open. The whole film is amazing and deserve to be nominated for this year's Academy Award for Best Picture.
Sure, some people wouldn't like this film because it has too many dialogs. I have no idea why but here in Indonesia, films that has too many dialogs tends to be disliked by people although the dialogs here are smart, edgy and witty. As for me, I like movies with too many dialogues, even though sometimes the dialogue is pointless like in Quentin Tarantino's movies.
Run time: 109 min
The story of a man ready to make a connection
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a heartless bastard, he travels around the country firing people with near zero remorse at all, even in this kind of economy. It appears that Ryan works for a company hired by another company who doesn't have the courage to fire their own employee. Does such company ever existed? I don't know for sure.
Ryan is a man who flies around the country and collect airline mileage (frequent flyer). I am not familiar with it and find the concept of collecting mileage as something new and exciting. Surely it is amazing if you have traveled 10 million miles and have your name printed on a very special card. That makes you feel important or different and perhaps you can have special services for that like entering VIP lounge and free flow of snacks and cookies.
Ryan loves his job, he loves being up in the air, he loves being all alone all by himself without any baggage to carry. But that was about to change. His days of plenty (traveling and firing people) is about to be over when Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick), propose a new system, firing people via internet.
Well, that is just plain rude, firing people via internet is like breaking up with your boyfriend/girlfriend via SMS, that is just inappropriate.
But since the company that hires Ryan doesn't have the balls to fire people (that's why they sent Ryan) and find that sort of 'solution' could save money, they began to ponder on that revolution.
This is a threat to Ryan who cannot and will not like to be grounded. So Ryan and Natalie must travel across the country since Ryan will have to 'train' Natalie on how to fire people professionally.
In the hand of mediocre director Natalie and Ryan will have a spark, but don't worry Jason Reitman is not a mediocre director, he manages to escape all the cliches of this sort of film. The rest of the story is hard to predict, if you predict that Ryan will finally settle with Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga), the female version of him who also share the same life philosophy with him, you are wrong. If you think that Ryan will 'repent' then you are wrong too. The ending is very nice and open. The whole film is amazing and deserve to be nominated for this year's Academy Award for Best Picture.
Sure, some people wouldn't like this film because it has too many dialogs. I have no idea why but here in Indonesia, films that has too many dialogs tends to be disliked by people although the dialogs here are smart, edgy and witty. As for me, I like movies with too many dialogues, even though sometimes the dialogue is pointless like in Quentin Tarantino's movies.
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