Who is John Galt?



This may be a timely movie, but "Atlas Shrugged" was a long and very silly book.  The characters are deliberately written in no more than one dimension so that there would be no confusion about who were the good guys and who were the bad guys.  Rand's obsession in this regard took her to the extent of giving the good guys nice names and the bad guys ugly names. The last 100 or so pages of the 3,000 or so pages consists of a long, long speech by the mysterious John Galt that lays out every jot and tittle of Rand's political/social/sexual/monetary/crazy-whacko narcissism-as-greatest-good theories.

Nonetheless, if you like that kind of thing, then that's the kind of thing that will get you blood boiling and your imagination fired with ideas of "going John Galt" and moving to Patagonia with your fellow "movers of the world" as part of an intellectual boycott of the parasites.

The trailer looks good.