Topic: Still Mine

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- 04/25/15 @ 1:57pm EDT #98512 test
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  AmeshAdalja Reply to Author,
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  A couple of years Jonathan Cargan recommended the movie Still Mine. I finally got a chance to see it and definitely agree with his recommendation. The movie’s plot, based upon a true story, centers on an elderly farmer’s quest to build a new home in the modern context of myriad building permit needs and code inspections.
  
  The movie does a great job concretizing how irrational regulation cripples the ability of an ordinary person to pursue their values and also how governments enforce each of their edicts by force, in the case the threat of a bulldozer.
- 04/27/15 @ 10:32am EDT #106860 test
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  WilliamBultas Reply to Author,
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  Thank you for the recommendation. Just added to My List in Netflix.
- 06/08/15 @ 3:59am EDT #107344 test
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  TonyWhite Reply to Author,
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  I definitely agree with the recommendation for this movie. I was very glad that the movie portrayed how silly and burdensome the government building code regulations can be, but I thought that this was overshadowed by the love story between the man building the house and the wife he was building it for.
  
  The wife was played Genevieve Bujold, looking better than ever.
- 08/04/15 @ 3:15pm EDT #107967 test
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  CarlBarney Reply to Author,
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  Still Mine is a simple and delightful movie which would appeal to an Objectivist audience. It is rich in virtues and values, such as independence, competence, romantic love, self-esteem, justice, courage and more. It was released in 2013 and I got mine from Netflix. Enjoy
  
  Carl B. Barney
  
  carl.barney@independence.edu
- 08/10/15 @ 5:41pm EDT #108091 test
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  StevenNemcek Reply to Author,
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  I just watched this movie on Netflix and I echo the recommendations above.
  
  There’s a small cast and the movie is simple, emotionally stirring, hopeful, and beautiful in setting. It’s based on a true story of an aging farmer and his wife, and shows his efforts to take care of her by constructing her a smaller, more livable house on his 2,000 acre property. Hamstrung from the very start by bureaucrats, the protagonist keeps a simple and optimistic aura about him as he stays loyal to his fiercely independent self, his wife, and his moral convictions. Evocative and thoughtful, it’s a joyful story of love and strong individualism.
  
  It was a shorter movie at 1 hour and 42 minutes, and I found myself deeply moved by the end.
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