“Up In the Air,” 8 July 2010 (2009), DVD. We all really liked this well-regarded 2009 film from Jason Reitman about Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) a professional HR hitman who is hired to fire employees He knows it’s a cruel system, but he loves his work with its complete lack of connection to others. He lives on planes and in hotels. He treasures his amazing miles in the air. He’s a completely anomic individual and markets that anomie as success. He starts a happy ongoing fling in hotels with Alex (a gorgeous and gutsy Vera Farmiga), his female travel counterpart. They play together on the road when they’re proximate. Otherwise, what are they?. Enter Natalie (Anna Kendrick), a young woman who works to shift the work to video terminations as a cost cutting venture and rejects Bingham’s anomic vision of happiness. He takes her onto the road to show her the real world and meaning of terminations. An interesting look at the essence of modern capitalism, a world that happily destroys the lives of people who serve it. A very good mass market film.