UP IN THE AIR Movie Review

The film started on several employees who are going to be fired. So this summed up the whole movie itself. But as I watched the movie, it is not only about firing employees, but giving motivational talking to them.

The universal sentence of Mr. Bingham,

Anybody who ever built an empire or changed the world sat where you are right now. And because they sat there, they were able to do it. That's the truth.

which Miss Keener also blabbered at first, became the motivational sentence of the entire movie. Which in the case meant that everybody else in the world experienced being so small. And when those empire builders became empire-builders, it meant anybody else could actually do the same, in the future.

My reaction about the whole movie was kind of motivational but lesser emotional. Motivational in the manner that even they’d been firing all day, all night, at the end of the conversation they’d been giving a packet which employees could find greater than what they’d been doing. Others are motivated, like, “It’s okay, I’d better flip the pages and discover something in my life,” while others thought it was a stupid decoration been tossing on employees’ faces just to add something on the line. Maybe, they’d created less emotions about “firing stuff” because we should be positive enough and not dealing with suicide on the bridge.

I was very disappointed because I was waiting how Mr. Bingham be fired (the real fired thing). And I wanted him to be emotional to that thing though he was not the type of guy. I wanted him to experience the position of being fired. And I was disappointed about his casual relationship with the woman there, finding out that she has her “real life”, already married. How can anyone supposed to handle that situation when you are getting ready for a complete realization about your philosophies in life, been walking-out of a seminar because you’d realized everything, and then finding out that you could be somehow true? Mr. Bingham could have been really not quitting the job unlike Miss Keener, at the end of the day he could say he’s right, laughing his ass off of not marrying someone because we are born just to die.

Learning that not all jobs are doing great for humans, they could be heartbreaking too. And that was the point of the movie. Miss Keener quit because she can’t possibly take it anymore. Learned also about that we should not carry all the people we knew, the famous backpack of Mr. Bingham, because it is a lot heavier to move forward when we have them, especially not realizing we should think of ourselves a whole lot more. Not because we don’t care about anyone, doesn’t mean we should forgetting about them. Mr. Bingham said moving is living. How can we live if cannot even move?

All in all, the movie is great and I will give it a total of three stars. Five minus one because there’s a pretty little liar on the movie, he brokenhearted Mr. Bingham and minus one because Mr. Bingham doesn’t cry, literally crying as in sobbing and passing out on tears.

Entrepreneurial Management teaches on how to make a business. Business needs people. And this movie simply shows terminating an employee to a business when they do not show enough productivity. Which means it literally helps improvement on a business by reducing the risks of hiring less-skilled employees.

Because this movie is so much related to our course, there are a lot of HRDM people out there I regret to inform that this kind of work is frustrating and heart-breaking. It is so difficult to see someone crying in front of you, especially when they beg you and you do not know them. And especially when you are a starter like Ms. Keener, you cannot handle things easily, terminating people easily, then all you have to do is to runaway. This job is for people who are tough.

To those people who are in the same line as ours, HRDM, I also regret to inform you that you might experience this on the future. To those who are thrilled to this kind of job, congratulations, you might be a ten-million miles flyer like Mr. Bingham. Just put some motivational factor in your baggage, as it enhance some things that might work when you could not handle things out. And you’re up to go.