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Employed people in the working world fear unemployment. To be fired is the equivalent of a death sentence. Now imagine that your job is as the executioner of the working world...a corporate downsizing expert. Up in the Air (2009) is a comedy/drama film depicting the story of  Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), whose work involves flying all around the country, giving speeches and help companies fire people. Naturally, a lot of interpersonal and communication skills had been implemented by Ryan to ensure, if not at least attempt to calm the ex-employee down and show them other options that would make them accept their current position more. This film can be viewed in two ways: either it can be viewed as the story of how a corporate downsizer does his job and develop as a person...which shows us an entirely different narrative on how to survive in this progressing modern world. Living in the 21st century is not easy. The world keeps progressing and progressing, and people need ...

Would you rather be someone forgettable with no personality or someone with multiple personalities? Trust me when I say that you would be much better should you prefer the former, because the latter is a mental disorder brought usually by trauma. Today's film review will be about Sybil, a two-part three-hour long t.v miniseries from 1976, based on a book of the same name, which depicts the story of Sybil and her dissociative identity disorder. Together, Synil (with her other identities) and Dr. Wilbur (her psychiatrist) must work together to get to the cause of the disorder, unveiling Sybil's own dark and tragic past full of insanity, pain and abuse. Dissociative identity disorder is a mental disorder characterized by having multiple personalities or identities in one bodies and memory loss (Kluff, 1996). Usually the transition of one identity to another will cause memory loss of the previous identity, as if the person has more than two souls in a body or is possessed b...