| RATING: | 100% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Rather good movie about a White culture immersed in its own materialism and resultant emotional repression and failure of personal relationships. The status symbols fly past at a rate of knots and we witness the superficiality of lives constantly on the move bolstered by the solace of affluence but, in important ways one senses, that are really not going very far. The compartmentalization of life shown here so common in the West is tangibly and heartbreakingly realized but with few solutions offered.
Sexy Vera FARMIGA is excellent as George CLOONEY’s foil and equal and helps compensate for the often bland charm and lack of real acting technique of the latter. Yet Clooney is making some very interesting choices and is willing to appear in superior quality work. In particular, the great appeal of this film is that actresses are treated as real people and respond accordingly in their performances. The Hollywood norm of femininity-as-totty is entirely absent here as Clooney clearly enjoys growing old gracefully into well-written, grown-up and sophisticated fare such as this. Anna KENDRICK completes the ménage a trois here in a female-dominated character-driven economic-recession comedy that brims with life despite the ostensible gloom.
A better film than The Darjeeling Limited in its take on those who travel light through life. And, like in Charlie Wilson's War, it is always nice to see a big star appear in a movie that does not cop-out in giving us the usual cloying and unconvincing ending. Indeed, being made redundant does feel like being up in the air the irony here being that the professional employee terminator here is more up in the air than most.
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