Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… businesswoman and frequent flier. Alex Goran is the perfect woman for a capricious, commitment-phobic man like Ryan Bingham. She’s beautiful, clever, and content with having a casual relationship that only exists between travels. Will Alex ever want something more meaningful? More importantly, perhaps, will Ryan?
Personality… confident and flirtatious. Alex Goran is the embodiment of seduction. She instantly charms with her wit, boldness, and spirit. You’d have to be an idiot to pass up a relationship with her. Or, be Ryan Bingham.
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George Clooney plays the dry cynical character of Ryan Bingham, an executive who specializes in "downsizing". Ryan lives out of his suitcase, traveling the country for the sole purpose terminating unwanted employees day after day. Just as Ryan is about to reach his life-long goal of the ten million mile frequent flyer mark some major changes come his way. Changes that threaten to crack the cold heartless exterior that is Ryan Bingham.
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Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of resignation sitting on his boss’s desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious consulting firm, Ryan Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal, his Holy Grail: one million frequent flier miles. But before he achieves this long-desired freedom, conditions begin to deteriorate.
With perception, wit, and wisdom, Up in the Air combines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the psychic costs of our rootless existence, and confirms Walter Kirn as one of the most savvy chroniclers of American life.
