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Go to the point “B”

“In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing, it's kind of exhilarating, isn't it?”It is the renowned theory of “package” of Ryan Bingham.

In the movie up in the air, Ryan Bingham played the role of a “redundancy expert”. He traveled all over the country almost throughout the year for business with a rare record made by him——totally 10,000,000 miles in the air which was ceremoniously honored by the airplane company. There was no permanent and steady house for him. He lived “up in the air ”both in reality and in his soul. The character of his job determined his personality——callousness, cruelty and ruthlessness. In front of the staff, he didn’t show any emotional swift after seeing the tears, anger, sadness, and anxiety of them. As a “top”distinguished guest of several departments, Ryan Bingham enjoyed the priority, a kind of superb life with high social status, focused sight of admiration and great reputation. We can recognize the shinning charisma through his wonderful speech in many places with powerful evidence, persuasive words and determined tone and attitude——“You don't need to carry all that weight. Why don't u set that bag down? Some

animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically for

a lifetime. Star-crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not

those animals. The slower we move, the faster we die. We are

not swans, we're sharks.”. Ryan Bingham who was a typical

representative of the upper class among Americans was really a

big success in career, which is one symbol of the name “up in

the air”.

If life is like a coordinate, Ryan Bingham was in the point

of “A1”. Three things happened which made a big

transformation to the point “B2”. First, the criticism from

Natalie is the starting point. Ryan began to rethink the

relationship with Alex, who was also a lonely traveler in the air.

“You have set up a way of life that basically makes it impossible

kind of human

connection. And now,

this woman comes

along and somehow

runs the gauntlet of

your ridiculous life

choice, and comes out on the other end smiling just u can call

her "casual"?”. Casual was used to reflect both the impression

made by Ryan on Alex and the understanding of Ryan’s relationship with Alex at the very beginning. Second, the wedding of Ryan’s sister ,especially his persuasion to his brother-in-low to change his mind——“life is better with company and everyone needs a co-pilot”functioned as a breeze which made Ryan feel the warm of family and a company. Third ,he gradually fell in love with Alex who he regarded as a “red face know to me ” . This intimate female gave Ryan a sense of love and Ryan began to have the strong desire of loving others and being loved. He went down to the earth——the point “B”. He became a man ready to make a psychological connection with “love ”of human. While, I feel so sorry and painful to see the ending which made him back to the point “A2” .“I thought I was a part of your real life. Try and help me understand exactly what it is that you signed up for.” said Ryan. “I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. I mean you are an escape, you are a break from our normal lives, you're a parenthesis”. Just using “A parenthesis” to conclude one process of emotional travel of life, Ryan fell into deeper loneliness again and got hurt seriously, and he said at the last of the movie“Tonight most people will be welcomed home by jumping dogs and squealing kids. Their spouses will ask about