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Atlas Shrugged
« Thread Started on May 4, 2011, 10:23pm »

It is a movie that Hollywood refused to produce and distribute. It is a movie that many pundits within the media have been advising people not to bother with. This movie is the film portrayal of Ayn Rand’s bestselling novel Atlas Shrugged.

This film is the first of a three part story that revolves around three main characters representing three main bodies of ideas. Henry Rearden, who owns a major steel company, Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive who believes in Rearden’s product so much, that she decides to use it to build her mainline railroad, and Paul Wyatt, an innovative entrepreneur of the oil industry whose business interests rest on the success of the other two.

Amidst their strides to innovate, and unite their resources and know-how to bring about innovative progress to the community, they all become saddled with intimidating pressure from political groups, government officials, and big labor groups, who are more concerned about getting their own cut of the profits at the expense of the innovators and workers that produce the services of that society possible. Meanwhile, a man wearing a black hat and trench coat goes around and offers many of the most influential contributors to society a way out of the society they are subjected to. And as such, producers that truly make that society flourish begin “missing,” leaving everything behind to crumble and fall without them.

Who is John Galt?

Throughout the story, a question penetrates through the minds of many. Who is John Galt? To some, he is a mystery. To others, he is their ticket out. And to those who went missing, he is of significant importance.

I really enjoyed this film. And one of the main reasons why I enjoyed it is because it makes you think, while at the same time, it chronicles the overall true nature of business and government from an inside perspective. What makes the whole “Atlas Shrugged” phenomenon so significant is that it was written in 1957, by a woman who lived in a Communist society, and came to America, only to see the very things she left behind in their early stages of development here. And while her book was written back in 1957, the very elements that her story addresses are very alive, and current, as we speak, even some 29 years after her death.

Out of 4 starts, I would have to give this movie 3.

The film is rated PG-13 and runs 1 hour and 37 minutes.

To view a trailer for the movie, please click on the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM

For more about this movie, visit the official website at….
http://www.atlasshruggedpart1.com/atlas-shrugged-movie-trailer

This movie is only playing in select theaters in select cities, so check your local listings or Google where this film is playing near you.

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