"Up In The Air": pundits love it!
From time to time, political pundits feel the need to take on an Important Movie. (They never seem to go digging through genre releases for hidden messages, though I'd give a lot to read, say, Thomas Friedman explaining how "Ninja Assassin" validates "glocalization" or whatever with its leveraging of Korean stars, Japanese history and American money.) The film of choice this season is Jason Reitman's "Up In The Air," which recently became the target of competing op-eds a week apart from different sides of the political aisle. Liberal Frank Rich went first last weekend in the New York Times, followed this weekend by George F. Will in the Washington Post. Both love the movie, because both believe it confirms the way they see the world (which really speaks -- like "Juno" -- to how watery Jason Reitman's vision is). In his piece, Rich notes early on that it's "not a...
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