To best understand what's bothering young people today, rewind to the 2009 comedy-drama Up In The Air. Forget about George Clooney for a bit. There's Anna Kendrick, playing Natalie Keener, freshly minted Cornell superstar, who could have taken a job in San Fransciso but followed her boyfriend to Omaha, the middle of nowhere, only to be dumped by him a few months into her new job.
She's not just heartbroken, she's unravelling: "I thought I'd be engaged by now... I thought by 23, I'd be married, maybe have a kid, corner office by day, entertaining at night. I was supposed to be driving a Grand Cherokee by now." Keener didn't just have her life mapped out, she'd packed it so tight, it could only explode.
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