The logic left after practicality - America in "In the Clouds"

Everett 2022-04-21 09:01:24

It seems that loneliness and cruelty are the themes that this movie has to say. The film draws a portrait of the value of the American middle class in the contradiction between these two aspects.


The people in this film especially understand what "loneliness" means. There's one important detail -
Ryan's brother-in-law had stage fright before the wedding, and Ryan was sent to break his "everything is a cloud" thought. Ryan admitted at the beginning that "conservation (represented by marriage) cannot resist nothingness", but he also said that "not being conservative will lead to loneliness". When my brother-in-law heard this, he was enlightened: Yes, it was the loneliness last night that made him feel lonely. I'm cranky thinking that the loneliness of the future makes me likely to jump off the bridge when I encounter unlucky things like being laid off.

For the quintessential American silver in the film, loneliness is something scarier than nothingness. At least in this movie, "nothingness" can be resisted with "Alex (Ryan's lover)-style irresponsibility", but loneliness, loneliness is to build an alternative world completely in the cloud, isolated from this mundane world . In this world, only Ryan, who keeps losing weight, does it at the beginning of the film. But the movie ends up showing us that the world wasn't really built by Ryan himself. Rather than constructing, he chose, embarked on, and while deeply in love with this way of life, forgot the reasons for his choice in the first place.

Throughout the film, Ryan has no peers. The point of the whole story is that Alex, his seemingly most caring person, "betrayed" him the most.

Ryan walks the clouds and water, and walks alone in the sky. The goal is to have the name fly in his place forever. But when his "free American dream" was just around the corner, his inner emotions had already fallen to the ground. That's where the film's plot setting is cunning.

He tried to fall to the ground, unaware that he had suffered "the worst aspect of conservative life" - an irresponsible extra-marital episode. He thought Alex was his kind at first, only to find out that she wasn't, but a big lie created by the life he was against. It cannot be denied that Alex has feelings for him, but the purpose of this feeling is to "fill" the emptiness caused by Alex's burden and excessive loneliness.

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So in the whole film, the best part of free life, the worst part of being kept Deep rape.

Bbbbbbbut, free to be raped, is indeed because of Ryan's bosom. He believed that two "free men" flying synchronously could land on the ground at the same time. And the movie tells us that it's another dream, a dream that's harder to achieve than "carving your name on an airplane." You cannot find conservatism in liberty, because you are lifted to heaven by conservative pragmatism. The facts that cannot be forgotten are the ones that are most deliberately made to be forgotten by you.

Ryan is a dream, the American dream of freedom itself.
But how can a dream be a reality?

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In most American logic, the resistance to loneliness is family.

And the brutal solution is a dream. Reality is cruel, but cruelty can make you fly.
But Ryan told Natalie that our obligation is to put this dream in front of most people, paint it more beautifully, and let them turn to a dream in the cruel friction.

Ryan's implication, dream, is the lubricant, the taxiway between cruelty and the next cruelty.

As far as true reality is concerned, a dream is not a real existence. The essence of the American Dream has changed here.

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The more lonely, the more conservative, the more pragmatic, the more reliant on the warmth of the family, the more dissatisfied with the unwarmth of the family, the more the need for a moment of unpractical and unconservative freedom to fly, the more it creates a dream of freedom that flows like a love episode, the less Responsibly exalt the value of this freedom dream, more and more the isolation and loneliness of freedom in this freedom dream, more and more forgetfulness and blurring in isolation and loneliness...
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In this way, is it not the same to drive the dream of freedom or fall into reality?

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Up in the Air quotes

  • Natalie Keener: [using Ned as an example to fire someone over the internet using video conference] Mr. Laskim, The reason we're having this conversation is because your position at this company is no longer available

    Ned: [reading the script he was given] I don't understand I'm fired?

    Natalie Keener: Hearing the words "you've been let go" is never easy change is always scary but consider the following: anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's because they sat there that they were able to do it.

    Ryan Bingham: [while watching her presentation, quietly to a colleague] that's my fucking line

    Ned: what happens now?

    Natalie Keener: This is the first step in a new process that will end with you at a job that fulfills you

    Ned: Yeah, but how does it work?

    Natalie Keener: You're going to take the packet in front of you review it, all the answers you're looking for are inside. Start filling out the necessary information and before you know it and before you know it you'll be on your way to new opportunities. I need you to go back to your desk and putting together your things. As a favor to me I'd appreciate it if you don't spread the news just yet panic doesn't help anyone

    Ned: I understand

    Natalie Keener: [to the staff] give it up for Ned

    Natalie Keener: [concluding her presentation] You can start the morning in Boston stop in Dallas over lunch and finish the day in San Francisco all for the price of a T-1 line. Our inflated travel budget increased by eighty five percent, more importantly to you guys on the road, no more Christmases in a hotel in Tulsa no more hours lost to weather delays you get to come home.

  • Ryan Bingham: Tell me you're not taking this seriously

    Craig Gregory: [in his office] That's why I brought the entire company in from the road because I'm not "taking this seriously"

    Ryan Bingham: There's a methodology to what I do there's a reason why it works

    Craig Gregory: Coke and IBM have been this for years are you familiar with them? Just like everything else it'll take a few months for the transition then everyone's going to settle in

    Ryan Bingham: Who are you taking off the road?

    Natalie Keener: How are not getting this? You're grounded everybody's grounded it's done

    Ryan Bingham: What we do is brutal and it does leave people devastated there's a dignity to the way I do it

    Craig Gregory: Like stabbing them in the chest instead of the back?

    Ryan Bingham: Am I the only one that sees by doing this we're making ourselves "irrelevant"?

    Craig Gregory: No we're making you "irrelevant",don't blame me blame the high fuel costs, blame insurance premiums, blame technology you better watch yourself you're too young to become a dinosaur

    Ryan Bingham: I'm not a dinosaur

    Craig Gregory: I want you to show her the ropes

    Ryan Bingham: I'm not the only one who knows what's going on here, get someone else to do it you're very confident that this girl doesn't know what she's doing I don't think setting a MySpace page qualifies you to rewire an entire company

    Craig Gregory: Great then here's your chance take her out there show her the magic, take her to the paces

    Ryan Bingham: I'm not a fucking tour guide

    Craig Gregory: We're ringing the bell and rounding everybody up you want to stay out there your welcome to but you will not be alone you let me know