The rhythm of the film is very tight when it comes up. When facing the camera, there are faces of panic, anger, grievance, fear, confusion, and despair, arguing, crying, venting, and being silent, making people panic. Especially in the United States today, it is experiencing the worst economic recession in more than sixty years since the end of World War II. The Internet is full of news of layoffs, bankruptcies, and even suicides and murders. Such a presentation of the film inevitably makes many people in unemployment panic. The people in the tide have grief. Capitalism is heaven as well as hell-with work is heaven, without work is hell. In this society where the value of surplus labor is squeezed the most, the significance of work is so important that it determines a person's life, old age, sickness, and death, and all life trajectories.
The life of the protagonist Ryan in the film is closely related to his work. On the one hand, he specializes in laying off employees for major companies, and every single business determines the direction of a group of people; on the other hand, his own life is also determined by this job. Traveling around the country 322 days a year, one flight followed by the next, always up in the air.
When the scene of the airport security check with percussion music appeared, I knew that I was completely attracted by this film. If you have the same traveling experience, if you have tossed around multiple airports in a day, and counted hours and hours in the constant flight and ups and downs, you must have the same feelings too. Skillfully and swiftly take out the computer, take off the jacket, untie the belt, take off the shoes, put it in the conveyor belt, go through the security gate, and then put on the shoes, tie the belt, put on the jacket, and set up the computer at the fastest speed, without any mess. When people around you are still undergoing body detection or tossing your luggage to reinstall your computer, you have taken your luggage and walked towards the boarding gate unhurriedly. In the film, Ryan also used his own experience to teach the newcomer Natalie: What kind of box should be suitable; never pass the security check and never rank behind the family and the elderly. Even those details that have not been specifically explained are meticulous. For example, you will find: Ryan always sits in the seat by the aisle, when two people are on both sides of the aisle. I don't need to say the reason for this. A fool would choose a window seat to see the cloud of ideas.
Security checks, ups and downs, ever-increasing flight mileage, and increasingly rich VIP cards, this is Ryan's life. Even when I met Alex, a female gold-collar worker during a trip, the content of the two chats was to discuss which company had better car rental services; like the Spring Festival Gala sketch "Playing Poker", they put up a bunch of VIP cards to compare with each other; feel good after sex, and immediately pay for each other Out of the computer to check work arrangements, find the meeting point of the next journey. As an industry expert and successful person, Ryan has been continuously invited to give speeches, repeating those hypocritical inspirational speeches in every lecture hall, giving false consolation to every person who has been fired, promising countless goodbyes, and knowing that "Of course I never I won't see this guy anymore."
In a debate with Natalie about the meaning of life, Ryan elaborated on his own philosophy of life: if you don't trust marriage and family, everyone will die alone; escape the life of heavy burdens and choose to play lightly. The biggest wish is to save up to 10 million miles, become the seventh in the world, enjoy life-long super platinum treatment, and engrave the name on the fuselage. Faced with Natalie's doubts, he responded lightly: People must have a hobby. Behind the film's calmness is an intriguing lowness: if you leave these figures and documents, what is the record and proof of life. The cold mileage accumulates is a lonely life.
It's not untouched. Twice in the film, Ryan couldn't help but go to see Alex. Sitting in the seat by the window. I have to admire the delicate handwork of the choreographer. When a person is leaning on that small window, looking at the sky, the sea of clouds, and even the dark night outside, you can imagine what kind of sentiment it is. With the development of the plot, the return to the family, the desire for love, the shaking of the previous concept, and the acceptance of the new life, step by step is unfolding. At last, Ryan shook his head and smiled and denied his own speech, and rushed to the flight to Alex's house in the eyes of everyone's astonishment.
I thought it would go on smoothly like this, but it was a complete and beautiful story. The wonderful thing is, it is a pity that life is not given to you because you fall in love. Thank the editor and director for not letting this film embark on the old routine of repentance and repentance. When I returned my head and stroked it carefully, I suddenly found all the hints before, and the truth that emerged from the cocoon jokingly verified Ryan's loneliness theory. Together with Natalie's experience, it seems to be summoned together, how many times in life will I have to choose and then modify, and be injured again. In the end, everyone will go back to the old place and walk on the old road. And Ryan is still up in the air, in the cloud.
Yes, I would like to admire this translation. In the cloud, it is a state, but also a life. Fortunately, the days of the cloud also have a time to ground. Ryan's newly married sisters used cut and paste images to create a honeymoon trip, and Natalie went into the next life with high spirits. It is these tiny people and things that exude warmth and spliced life beyond the mileage.
In my annual film review, I once complained that I didn't see a 10-point film in 2009. Now this argument can end.
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