Ayn Rand - A Sense of Life (Director's Vision Edition)
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Actor: Daniel E. Greene, Harry Binswanger, Michael S. Berliner, Sharon Gless, Sylvia BokorDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), PCM Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Strand Releasing
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DVD Review: The objectivism of Ayn Rand
Summary: 5 Stars
Ayn Rand wrote some of my favorite books: The Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged.
Born at the beginning of the 20th Century Russia, in the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Ayn Rand started to read from the early age of six. By the age of nine, it is said that she knew she wanted to dedicate her life to writing and to philosophy.
Russia of the times was focused in collectivism, something Ayn Rand despised. After reading the works of Victor Hugo her character starts to shape. She lived through the Kerensky Revolution and in 1917, through the Bolshevik Revolution. From the start, she denounced communism and when the revolutionaries are victorious and start the painstaking process of taking away property, confiscating the pharmacy her father owned, she decides Russia is not the country for her. The family undergoes poverty and lack of food. While at school, during a class of American History, Ayn develops the ardent desire to become an American citizen. The United States becomes her goal because she wants to join a nation of free men and women, where the rights of the individual are protected by its constitution.
The university where she was studying philosophy is overtaken by communists, but during her last years of study; she enjoys one great pleasure, watching Western films and plays, and decides to enter the State Institute for Cinema Arts to study screenwriting.
Finally, she is permitted to leave Soviet Russia and to visit the United States. Her trip was supposed to last a short time, but she was determined never to return to Russia. New York City, with its skyscrapers, thousand lights, and never ending activity becomes the city that shapes her interpretation of the finest achievements of humanity. For a while, following her acting career, she travels to Hollywood and meets Cecil B. DeMille, who offers this striking young woman, with piercing eyes, a ride to the set of his movie The King of Kings. Mr. DeMille gives her an opportunity, her first job in the USA, as an extra, a script reader.
She meets actor Frank O'Connor and they strike interesting conversations that result in a marriage until death did they part. She writes The Fountainhead, where she shapes a hero by the name of Howard Roark, an architect, an ideal man that reveals to the world a philosopher that clearly sees how "a man ought to be." She then moves to write Atlas Shrugged, a novel that shares her philosophy through a story, surfacing the concept of objectivism, or how to live on Planet Earth.
The beauty of this DVD is that you see rare interviews with this marvelous philosopher who believed that only through a free capitalistic economic system and process could humans express and reach their full potential. For us, it provided a rare view into a favorite writer and we thoroughly enjoyed learning that as her characters, she refused to compromise and demanded that the entire speech given by her character, Howard Roark, played by Gary Copper, be delivered in entirety in the production of The Fountain Head. Without a doubt, if you admire Ayn Rand's work, this is a DVD that opens the door to rare film where we can see the episodes of the life of an amazing woman, writer, and philosopher.
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