The Antisocial Socialist

Happy Teabagging Day, everyone! Since I've just gotten home, I haven't had a chance to check my friends list, but I expect that there were a lot of lulz to be had all over the U.S. And I'm celebrating with a bit of unintentional homoeroticism of my own by bringing to you the last installment of The Fountainhead.

Previously on The Fountainhead, Frank Lloyd Wright was starting to feel really, really creeped out.

( Bizarre love triangles are dynamite! )

Previously on The Fountainhead, Roark was pompous and Dominique was crazy.

( The rise of Howard Roark, in more ways than one )

Continuing in the questionable tradition of This Revolution, Red Dawn, Left Behind, and Rambo III, sabotabby has just watched The Fountainhead so that you don't have to.

For those of you who have not heard of it, The Fountainhead (a.k.a. the one with the rape scene) is one of Ayn Rand’s more doorstop-worthy novels. It’s set on a parallel Earth much like our own, except that everyone cares a great deal about architecture, and there are a lot of rich socialists who are running things. Our hero is Howard Roark, an idealistic young architect. Like most capitalists, Roark does not really believe that the customer is always right; unlike most capitalists, however, he is not particularly good at hiding this belief. This causes inevitable conflict and a lot of long, stilted monologues, occasionally interrupted by really kinky sex.

Now, most of the movies that I review here are terrible but entertaining to watch. The Fountainhead is terrible and also dull as shit, with the exception of the really kinky sex scenes. Don’t watch this movie unless you’ve gotten incredibly drunk first and can snooze through the boring bits, which honestly is about 99% of it.

Trigger warning: This movie contains rape, self-mutilation, suicide, and appears to have been written by a 13-year-old fangirl.

( Here we go! )

Stay tuned for the next installment, where rape is love and everyone's a kinky bastard, when they're not lecturing about architecture.