Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996). Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life: Directed by Michael Paxton. With Sharon Gless, Michael S. Berliner, Harry Binswanger, Sylvia Bokor. A documentary focusing on the life of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and originator of the Objectivist philosophy.

“I find this film to be little more than veneration for a woman who claimed she had no time for veneration but was more than willing to have people worship her. Rand was a hypocrite. At the end of her life she took Medicare for her lung cancer which was due to her lifetime of smoking. Thats not even mentioned in the film. I gave Randu0026#39;s ideas my full attention for some 3 months a few years ago and was intrigued by them before coming to the conclusion her ideas are badly flawed. I read the Fountainhead and a number of her essays but didnu0026#39;t get far with Atlas Shrugged, by then Iu0026#39;d had enough. Iu0026#39;m a geriatric nurse, and I meet many people near the end of their lives and I meet their families, and see the quality of their relationships (or lack there of) and I can tell you, consistently, its those who live and care for others and open themselves and receive the care of others who have the happiest lives. I see it again and again and again. Thereu0026#39;s a name for it, its called love. Rands u0026quot;individualismu0026quot; is suicidal for the individual, the family and society. Iu0026#39;m rating this film so low because it does little more than promote these ill gotten ideas.”