Here’s the thing about filming a great big book of capitalist science fiction. If you’re enslaved to its every idea, one movie will never do. You might need two or three or 13. It’s a safe assumption that the people responsible for “Atlas Shrugged Part II” will require only one more installment to leave us alone. But who knows? (The copy I dragged around for six months was 1,200 pages.) They could be following that math principle in which a number is under constant division without ever reaching zero. Maybe we should be bracing for “Atlas Shrugged Part .044564: The Shruggening.”
Until then Dagny Taggart, the heroine of Ayn Rand’s soapy supernovel played in this movie by a power-walking Samantha Mathis, is trying to keep her privatized mega-railroad from being taken over and therefore ruined by a stupid, short-sighted government obsessed with sharing everything with the people. That is pretty much “Part II.” In a parallel America whose citizens look the way we look now but whose economy looks the way it did when my grandmother was a girl, the hero magnates have begun sabotaging their industries or abandoning them. That’s how regulatory and redistributey Washington is: It’s destroying America in an attempt to make everyone equal.
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It is amazing how many people have not read the book but claim to love it . Especially members of the religious right who are clueless about her loathing of organized religion.
It is amazing how many people are critical of Rand without reading any of it. ...just saying.
There is no liberty in socialism. There is even less of an 'economy' in socialism. Ayn Rand's warning on Democrat socialism: 'Everyone is enslaved to everyone else'
Wesley needs to turn in his card as movie reviewer. From the very beginning, Wesley's biased and negative comments about the movie indicate that the movie didn't have a chance. However, he IS being loyal to his employer's mantra. Maybe that's why he'll continue to be his emplyer's movie reviewer.