“喜欢它的人会认为它有深度、有电影感，不喜欢它的人会觉得它不知所云、闷到抽筋。”
以上是资深影评人亚萝夏对电影《型男飞行日志。Up in The Air》的评语。看了电影之后，个人是非常赞同亚萝夏的说法的，而我则属于前者，喜欢这部电影的格调，和其从不同角度探讨的一个课题 -- 什么才是生命里最重要的东西呢？
佐治。克鲁尼(George Clooney)所饰演的莱恩是一个以事业为重的专业解雇员。他的工作就是马不停蹄地到全国各地帮助各种公司解雇员工。当然，这是一份很残忍的工作，被解雇的员工往往泣不成声，有些甚至失控说出许多难堪的话。
毕竟，他们都有家人等着开饭。没了工作，对他们来说就像是慢性死刑，大家都不知道怎么办才好。还好在家人的支持下，大部分人都熬得过去。对他们来说，家人才是生命里最重要的东西。也有一小部分因熬不过去，而选择了结束自己的生命。对他们来说，失业后所带来的负担比生命还要沉重。
毕竟，他们都有家人等着开饭。没了工作，对他们来说就像是慢性死刑，大家都不知道怎么办才好。还好在家人的支持下，大部分人都熬得过去。对他们来说，家人才是生命里最重要的东西。也有一小部分因熬不过去，而选择了结束自己的生命。对他们来说，失业后所带来的负担比生命还要沉重。
不断目睹着种种家庭悲剧，让莱恩对人生有着很不一样的看法。莱恩认为朋友、亲人、和伴侣的感情是人生中最大的包袱，而这包袱会使一个人的步伐变得越来越慢、越来越沉重。要获得真正的解脱和自由，人们就必须减轻自己的感情包袱。
莱恩是如此的深信着自己的看法，他常利用空闲的时间到处演讲，宣扬他的信念。以下就是他演讲时常用的例子，且不理是对是错，其中的意义其实是蛮深长的：
"How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life... you start with the little things.
The shelves, the drawers, the knick knacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV... the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home... I want you to stuff it all into that backpack.
Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office... and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag.
Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans.
We are not swans. We are sharks."
莱恩是如此的深信着自己的看法，他常利用空闲的时间到处演讲，宣扬他的信念。以下就是他演讲时常用的例子，且不理是对是错，其中的意义其实是蛮深长的：
"How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life... you start with the little things.
The shelves, the drawers, the knick knacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV... the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home... I want you to stuff it all into that backpack.
Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office... and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag.
Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans.
We are not swans. We are sharks."
这种信念，让莱恩没有家、没有家庭生活、与家人感情淡薄。他快乐吗？他不快乐。他寂寞。直到他在旅途上遇上了一个名叫爱乐思的女人，他对她动了真情，他渐渐地对自己这种没有家、没有感情的生活方式产生了疑虑。
可是造化弄人，当他开始改变自己看法的时候，命运却对他开了一个玩笑 -- 他发现了爱乐思已婚有孩子的真相。这件事对莱恩的打击非常大，也让他明白他从来就不善於处理家庭与事业两全其美的事实。
莱恩迷失了吗？他自己也不清楚，他终究还是回到了工作岗位上，继续到全国各地解雇员工。不过，他开始关心起自己冷漠已久的家人。他把自己累计已久的飞行积分，转账给向往旅行的妹妹与妹夫，让他们可以到全国各地游玩。或许莱恩已逐渐地了解到家人对他的重要性吧。
从开头到结尾，《型男飞行日志。Up in The Air》都带着一丝丝的惆怅和寂寞的味道。正如亚萝夏所说的：如果你是城市寂寞人，这部电影会是你的那杯茶。
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