Q on queue 076: Going to the Movies Pt 3 - Up In The Air

In this third part of the "Going to the Movies" series, we talk about the 2009 film "Up In The Air".  The story is centered on a traveling corporate "downsizer" named Ryan Bingham.   His job is to travel the world helping companies essentially lay off people.  His life philosophy is one about disconnecting and detaching, as his whole job is to tell people they’re being cut off.  When thinking about his travels and lifestyle, he realizes that even though he has a city he works out of, he is so transient with his work and life that he really has no home or connections to one place or to people in general.  The film examines the philosophy - what if you decided to live hub to hub, city to city, with nothing and nobody?

This episode focuses on the very thing Ryan didn’t seem to have many of or be very good at - relationships.  Each of us has a variety of relationships with other people in our lives.  Regardless of whether they are casual acquaintances, close friends, or something else, God calls us to have relationships with others.  It's up to us to do what we need to make those relationships meaningful and keep them healthy.