UP IN THE AIR

The american movie in question allows us to reflect on the reality of a world in disaggregation, far from the liquidity considered by Bauman, reality is now an area, the concept of the dispensability of relationships and extreme relativism, makes us consider how we evolved to a society where people use and love objects and lifestyles, such as the permanent party and distance have become commonplace, as the values ​​of family and attachment are now demonized and replaced by a new language of pragmatism and thought, as well as it has gone from a pattern of guilt and responsibility to a pattern of multicultural travel and acceptance.

What is most relevant in the film is to realize how we have suddenly become expendable, and how the inability to deal with loss and suffering, the suitcase full of human relationships came to be seen as horrible and something to tear down, as somehow commitment and dedication, just like work in the 19th century, gave way to the culture of consumption, of the expendable, how the relationships that count are facade, how the human being wants to escape and, above all, does not find its balance point.

The most intense scene is perhaps the one in which the protagonist played by actor George Cloony approaches his travel friend, the woman he thought understood him, as she had adhered to his "lifecoach" lifestyle, where the cruel became "business as usual", through the dismissal of workers across America, where the method of blurring and refocusing was applied without awareness of the consequences, and where the emotional was the currency of the absence of values, in a world where accepting change, or making people accept misery, became synonymous when dealing with human beings, with their hopes and attachments.

In this approach, it is clear that he was just the spare part, in which the relationship he thought was based on trust and loyalty because after all they both wanted the same, an uncompromising life, that suitcase full of weight that he so shied away from. , after all, she was not liked by either of them, when in the end they were just two narcissists lost in their shadow play, empty with their inability to commit to something bigger than themselves, a family.

At a time when the vulgar has become despicable, when it only succeeds in letting go and learning to live in the clouds, or in the air, the sad truth is that the moment has passed and liberation in the form of returning to oneself, if it turned into the inability to love, to give, to relate deeply, with assumed expectations, with solid commitments, and with necessary attachments, with visions of life and the world that will bring the ugly side, the human side, the side that does not childish or irrational, but the most rational and true thing we can feel and live, commitment outside the clouds.

It is a film that can still be seen from the point of view of the labor and social point of view, where the decay of the extreme utilitarian or Bentamite model demonstrates that we are no longer the fittest, that the Darwinism in which we live is social but immoral , that loving and feeling are considered signs of possessiveness and lack of intelligence, where however those who live well, live only with their money in an illusion in which we only wake up at the time of death, as the last words of Steve Jobs remind us “that he just wanted to have lived more as a human being” and less back from his empire.

An important reflection on what it means to be free, to be an adult and to be happy, because often the illusion of independence, continues to be an American dream from which we are increasingly waking up in a nightmare, because of the suitcase that ultimately burned and the weight that at the end of the day made all the difference between the suffering of absence and the joy of real challenges, where everything after all weighs, where the artificial is after all this armor of modern times, our emotional independence, the factor of disengagement and turning inward to escape the other rather than to find oneself in the perspective of giving, or simply the inability to surrender to the other.