Review of Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012) by Jeffrey M — 24 Feb 2013

Yes, same review. Same film.

This film is beautiful. It is not perfect. It is beautiful in that you can perceive the passion with which the actors attempt to capture something so sweeping as a philosophical work of fiction by the genius of Ayn Rand.

This movie is based on a novel Rand completed in 1937. Keep that in mind as you see how they adapt that time period to today, when I go to the pump to pay for gas at $4.05 a gallon.

My childhood friend said something to me 30 some years ago (still my friend, of course) that I did not want to believe, but have come to know in middle age: "Rand isn't something you're taught. It either edifies what is in you or not." It just makes me sad how few get.

P.S. Rand was born in poverty in Russia in 1905 and escaped to the U.S. that she understood to be THE closest to the Objectivist Ideal. She came and changed literature and philosophy. These actors are doing their best to portray her views in Atlas Shrugged, and not poorly.

Contrarily and subversively, "Critics" (aptly named), film or otherwise, are failed artists who make their bitter stabs at others genius in pitiful attempts to feel better about their failure. "If the don't "get it", maybe that's part of the problem.

I won't be back to defend my position. Enjoy.