Spirit Freed

Up In The Air

Ryan Bingham loves his work, though most of us would find it deplorable. His job is to fly from city to city around the US and fire you from your job. Of course there's a sophisticated terminology for this kind of profession and Bingham is the first to remind us that he's a "transition specialist", not an executioner. The euphemism is not lost in Jason Reitman's "Up In The Air". Indeed, as Bingham, played to perfection by George Clooney, expertly and efficiently traverses the corporate American ...