Dagny Taggart (Taylor Schilling) runs Taggart Transcontinental, the largest remaining railroad company in America, with intelligence, courage and integrity, despite the systematic disappearance of her best and most competent workers.
She is drawn to industrialist Henry Rearden (Grant Bowler), one of the few men whose genius and commitment to his own ideas match her own. Rearden's super-strength metal alloy, Rearden Metal, holds the promise that innovation can overcome the slide into anarchy.
Using the untested Rearden Metal, they rebuild the critical Taggart rail line in Colorado and pave the way for oil titan Ellis Wyatt (Graham Beckel) to feed the flame of a new American Renaissance.
Hope rises again, when Dagny and Rearden discover the design of a revolutionary motor based on static electricity—in an abandoned engine factory—more proof to the sinister theory that the "men of the mind" (thinkers, industrialists, scientists, artists, and other innovators) are "on strike" and vanishing from society.
this is a very good story (unlike the many idiots commenting negatively on the book, i actually read atlas shrugged) and the movie is a reasonable enough reproduction of that book. as provides as much as can be expected at least, when you are talking about a thousand page book. so, no, it's not a 'philosophy for nitwits'. it is how the world works. it is about the complex relationship between men of government and private business. it is about entrepreneurialism. there are so many parts of the book that can be applicable to the unmitigated disaster of obama's presidency. for example, in the book, rearden owns a large estate and he lets a number of family members sponge off him without
this movie came out some time ago but didnt make it into any theaters i know of. what happened. was it realy that bad
it might possibly be duller and more ridiculous than the novel. a philosophy for nitwits.