(At my screening, the most appreciative applause was generated when a phone message from a union leader was tossed into the trash.) Viewers will either applaud the carping about how government stifles capitalism, or will leave thinking such theories are crazier than ever. It's not worth arguing the merits of Rand's philosophy here: This film was made by adherents (with a shout-out in the credits to Ronnie James Dio), and it won't change any minds. (Spoiler alert: Part Three is likely to be a two-hour speech.) Hopefully, the production team will get on a more accelerated schedule, or some of us may not live to see Part Two and Three. The shucking off of non-believers and the creation of that expressway - "a society that celebrates individual achievement" - comprises the first part of Atlas Shrugged, now set in 2016. Nor, according to this work, is maximizing unfettered capitalism, at least not until the political stooges and free-loaders get out of the way. Yet it reputedly has taken two decades to develop this adaption of just one-third of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel. In Atlas Shrugged, it takes train magnate Dagny Taggart and steel-maker Hank Rearden only a year to re-construct a railroad of the future through the Rocky Mountains. Factory ready: industrialists Hank Rearden (Grant Bowler) and Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling)
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