If you see a flock of birds flying by, and then notice a helicopter in the same airspace, doesn't the helicopter look absurd, as the two images slowly move by?

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Up in the Air

Flying high, city to city, your life in a suitcase, firing people for a living, aware of every hotel/car rental/flight deal in the USA, trying to save up 10 million air miles, lovin' it. That just about sums up Ryan Bingham's (George Clooney) life in Jason Reitman's new film Up in the Air, a romantic comedy that probes the depths of the resolute "can't be tied down" bachelor. Bingham works for a company that flies its workhorses around the country 24/7 firing people for firms who don't have the gusto to do it themselves. But technological complications arise in the form of a lively young graduate (Anna Kendrick as Natalie Keener) whose videoconferencing ambitions threaten Bingham's comfortable lifestyle. But before taking her revolutionary ideas to heart, manager Craig Gregory (Jason Bateman) decides she needs to learn the ropes herself and sends her "on the road" with the veteran Bingham. During their trip, experience meets education in an age-old rivalry designed to test the limits of both their idealistic life plans. Throw Bingham's love interest Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga) into the mix, along with a troublesome wedding, and you have a multi-layered quizzical examination of the platonic nature of values, thoroughly saturated with longstanding larks.

A thoughtful, entertaining, somewhat unpredictable story, Up in the Air demonstrates how things work out when they don't work out while deconstructing the concept of love. Whether or not it considers the subjective life to be ideal is up for debate insofar as its heartbroken protagonist sustains his uncommitted lifestyle by suavely spreading misery as the crow flies.

The ideas are waiting to be caught forms flowing freely, by, with wind, my flight lasting 17 hours playing films didn't mind the food below I saw clouds sketching frames freelanced focus concentrated while we passed.

Flying

That startling thrush
rushed through wilding winds,
gliding and floating
and flying within

while searching for food
and twigs to build nests,
and linings and ledges
for all guests to rest,

when a sparrow swooped
by and said "how do you do?",
I mean what I say sir,
I mean it times two!"

And she briefly relaxed
her magnificent wings
and fluttered there coyly,
considering things;

and indeed at long last,
feathers silken and smooth,
she said "oh dear sir, you're
back in the groove!"