This is not a review of the movie, but an exhortation to see it. I would have been happier if IBD did an actual review.
Thanks for posting. HOORAY Ralph R. Reiland!...and thanks for your OUTSTANDING work, Publius.
Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.
The Harry potter of economics.
Rand always had a Hollywood view of America. It’s the Hank Hill types, not the Hank Reardens, who made this country great.
sounds like a good movie.
Actually, I find Rand’s writing toxic. It has medicinal uses, admittedly, particularly in curing youthful tendencies toward statism and collectivism, but like most medicines, in most contexts, it’s toxic.
The author appears to be unaware that the movie is only the first of 3 parts since the quotation he provides from Galt’s speech presumably won’t show up until Part III. All the quotes cited appear to be straight from the book as opposed to anything said on screen etc. My guess is that unlike P.J. O’Rourke—who I presume was given a copy of the DVD for the express purpose of writing a review—this writer has not yet seen the film, so is just as much in the dark as the rest of us as to its true scope and quality.
“My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists – and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these. To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his life: Reason – Purpose – Self-Esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge – Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve – Self-Esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living.” (3.7.1.171)