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Oscar-nominated animated shorts: The Simpsons spin-off The Longest Daycare
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader - Bleader
Individualism |
The plot has baby Maggie enrolled at the "Ayn Rand School for Tots," where toddlers are divided into a "Gifted Area" and a grim-looking room marked "Nothing Special." Apart from the appearance of "Raggedy Ayn Rand" dolls, the filmmakers never advance on the satirical promise of that set-up. [....] (One could read this as an allegory about the negative implications of Rand's individualist philosophy—with the "nothing special" kids turned into antisocial monsters as a result of being written off—but the movie doesn't really support that reading. [....])
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