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This is, of course, not an uncommon view -- A Clockwork Orange flirted with this point of view (and Burgess disowned the film adaptation because he felt it wholeheartedly embraced it) The movie Natural Born Killers takes it as far as it can go Ugly, nasty, regrettable shit
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There's a sense where the most boring things to some people are the most obvious; "don't murder children" for example. So there's a perverse need to show that you aren't bound by those rules.
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That really is the best summary of Rand's characterization skills, because oh GOD is every single "positive" character in AS a raging dumpster fire, and Rand sure did seem to have a lot of trouble tracking what defined good and not good between one scene and the next.
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I think my "favorite" examples of this are the contrast between Dagny's relations with D'Anconia/Hank Rearden/John Galt and James Taggart's relationships with Cheryl/Mrs. Rearden. In Dagny it's a statement of power and her nobility. In James it's terrible + Cheryl's suicide.
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