Review of The Fountainhead (1949) by Dave H — 16 Aug 2015
Batshit crazy. Interesting story, and I'm all for off-kilter ideologies being expressed through art, and the individuality vs commie stuff here is fine in itself. But this film is WEIRD. The characters are almost robotic, spouting philosophy more often than personal motivation to an extent this sometimes seems like pretentious (bad) sci-fi.
There's far too little character based dialogue and far too much overbaked speechifying. Steiner's music is stupidly overpowering, as is the romantic melodrama, which sits uncomfortably with the ideological grandstanding - although the phallic stuff with the power drill is a riot.
Certainly different, certainly not boring. Just very weird.
This review of The Fountainhead (1949) was written by Dave H on 16 Aug 2015.
The Fountainhead has generally received positive reviews.
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