Maybe the only people who would give this movie a perfect score are George Clooney fans. Anyway, he is outstandingly good looking, but some people think that’s all there is to this movie.
The reason why I bothered to mention it in this report is because I was personally quite moved by it. The reason is that this movie reminded me of Fitzgerald’s novel “The Rich Young Man,” which I like.
In the novel, a rich young man who was playing around every day gradually disappears as his friends around him get married or go abroad for work, and one day, when no one catches him, he goes to his favorite bar alone and laments to the master, “Is the world ending? (I’ve omitted a lot.) The protagonist of the aforementioned movie seems to have retired.
The protagonist of the aforementioned movie is an unusual man who works as a retirement agent and travels around the country, dreaming of one day accumulating 10 million miles and becoming one of only seven people in the world to receive a platinum plate.
This main character, Georgie Clooney, has been enjoying his youth for many years in a way (although his subordinates called him a twelve-year-old), as he is the only movie in which he is the main character, as a handsome bachelor aristocrat, enjoying an affair with a woman he met on a business trip.
Apart from his day job, he is also asked to give lectures as a seasoned traveler. On the spot, he puts his carry-on bag to the side and says that in order to live life with ease and lightness, you have to throw away the unnecessary things. In particular, I have recommended discarding troublesome relationships.
However, through my sister’s wedding, my interactions with my subordinates, and the women I have met, I am reminded of the need for a partner. Unfortunately, the woman I was seeing had a family and dumped me, saying it was just for fun. Then, on the return flight to see the woman, ironically, the protagonist achieves 10 million miles and is able to have a conversation with the captain of the plane, whom he admires on board. In other words, his dream comes true.
A short time later, the hero returns to his former life of flying. At the end of the film, he spontaneously removes his hand from the carrier bag in his hand and smiles a self-deprecating and at the same time faintly sorrowful smile as he looks up at the airport’s departure and arrival flight information board, which he once looked up at with great excitement. This is the last scene. This last smile is reminiscent of the rich young man in the novel.
The protagonist of both works also suddenly comes to the end of a way of life that he thought was the best and would last forever. Or it ends in their minds. Then, they are forced to look back on their lives. The thought they realize there is the “end of youth” and that smile.
It tells us that it comes suddenly, regardless of our age. It may be similar to the feeling of loneliness that one feels when a pleasant summer ends and one feels a hint of autumn.
Just looking at the self-deprecating, sorrowful protagonist at the end of his youth, I think it is enough to give us enough emotion to compensate for the whole storyline, which I am not sure if it is a comedy or a serious one, the half-hearted storyline, and the blurred personalities of the main characters.
See you soon.
