[Borges]

OK if you're trumpeting the literary artistry of Rand then we have aesthetic chasms dividing us. BTW I heard she disliked that 1930s version of WTL. Ever see King Vidor's film of The Fountainhead? He turned it into a screaming Freudian melodrama. "I wish I'd never seen your skyscraper!"

I don't think great artists deal in fundamentals or general ideas they deal in specifics. I agree with Nabokov who said that the schoolmarm who pronounced that great art is 'simple and honest' should have been drummed out of the business. Everyone knows that great art is complex and deceitful. :-)

If you criticize 'Schindler's List' from a subject matter point of view then it's not worth discussing. It's about what it's about...an adaptation of a book about this particular guy and what he did. From what I've read about him he was actually more heroic then the film displayed...putting his life on the line every day and actively stepping in between Jewish workers and Nazis. It was an enthralling piece of filmmaking.