| | I always wondered about Barbara Branden’s permanent silence about the message sent by the picture „The Passion of Ayn Rand,“ which was, as the credits state, based on her book “The Passion of Ayn Rand,” for while the book itself is a wonderful hymn to the glory of the great philosopher, there couldn’t be a more perfect contraption of vengeance against Ayn Rand in person as what this picture shows. This becomes evident while viewing the film and is even more enhanced when thinking about the script, which practically reduces itself to Rand’s affair with Nathaniel Branden, so much that Mirren pronounces, along the whole length of the movie, just one and only one phrase of Rand in favor of Capitalism, and this in a most senseless scene, while staring at a shopping window, as if presenting saleable goods were the essence of Capitalism, while Rand’s philosophy and her most admirable further work is silenced in toto. If Barbara’s purpose was to take a late time vengeance on Rand, the purpose was fully accomplished; else, if it covered the purpose of the script writer and the director, it remains as a peculiar silence from Barbara Branden to not have strongly come to the forefront to distance herself from what the movie basically rendered, a late time vengeance against Rand’s affair with Barbara’s then time husband.
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