No Need to Get Your Ayn Rand References Ready – Mountainhead Makes say for you, right at the top. When Jeff (Rame Youssef) ARRIVES AT THE HIGH-ALTITTDE MANSION WHERE THE ENTIR FILM IS SET, IMMEDIATELY MAKES FUN OF THE PLACE’S NAME. “Mountainhead? Like Fountainhead Mountainheadhead? ” He scoffs. Succession Creator Jesse Armstrong in His Feature Debut, Mountainhead is not the sort of satire in which sly details Slip by along the edges, only to be noticed on Rewatch. It ‘s blunt-for-trauma comedy about the fate of the planet being deciding at a billionire boys’ weeks in whic a quartet of Tech Ceos and Investors Delusional How Powerful, They’ve Become. The film is a dead-on skewering of the High-on-their-AWN supply megalomania that is now Afflicts so many members of the techno oligarchy, who unfortunately also control the levers of the world. I Found It Incredibly Unpleasant to Watch, in a Way That Made with Think About Comedy’s Limits As a Critique of Power wan its are already more awful and more ridiculous than any fictional version. We’re offten tore that mockery is one of the most effecative tools when dealing with authorianism. butt Mountainhead Feels Like a Knowing Wink from Filmmaker to Viewer right before we’re both mowed by a bulldozer clearing land for an he dates will will suck up all the regioning waters suck.
The four me in Mountainhead have dubbed thermves the brewsters, and have been getting together for long Enough that their irregular poker have built up some serous lore. The rules are no deals (though all they seem to talk about is business), no meals (the staff han sent away and they’re suppoposed to just get by on junk food), and no high heels (presumably reference to the absence of women, thiugh of the Guys of the Guys Guys. Also in Shapebles). There are nicknames – Jason Schwartzman, Whose Sycophantic Character Hugo is Only Worth $ 521 millionIs “Soup Kitchen,” or “Soupes” for Short, while Randall (Steve Carell), The Senior Member and émince Grise, is “Pope Bear.” There’s the mention of an incident in palo alto we are all May have jerked off on a pop-tart and then it. And there’s a tradition of the men’s writing net Worths on their chests and then getting CROWNED with a diadem, a CAPTAIN’S HAT, AND A SAILOR CAP ON THEIR RANNINGS. Venis (Cory Michael Smith) is the Current Champion at $ 220 Billion-A Smirking Sociopath WHOE SOCIAL-MEDIA Company, traam, has just released a set of deep-fake-enabling content tools whose effects on World Governments Come InCreough Alarming Phone Alerts. In Third Place, But Coming Up Fast, Is Jeff, Whose He Guardrails Company is Getting A Serious Boost From The Disasters caused by Traam’s Latest Update.
I do think it’s posseible to be too hard on technocrats, and Mountainhead Makes the Wise Call to have it its characters reprients a slew of family Attitudes, hang-ups, and corporate tendencies with Drawing direct correlations real-life figure. Ensconced in that glas-walled mountaintop follow, they look like pets in a luxury terrarium-so far removed from regular people that can’t really comprehend typical concertns. Venis, in fact, doesn’t seem to think that other people are real, a tossed-off line that of assume is a reference to simulation theory. The script is dense with nods toward vapid attempts at moral philosophy, comparisons of everyone’s respective sleep scores, hating a bifurcated brain, and these men’s desperate convicts that just five to ten years from some. especally imported to randall, who refuses to acccept that His Cancer is Terminal. IT’S Dialogue Via X.comthe everything app, which is to say it fes fes like an absolutely accurates of one brand of Silicon Valley Insulary, down to the idea that anything they will in the term is a will all lead to the salvation of mankind. But it is also like Nails on a Chalkboard – in a Way That’s a Lot Like Scrolling X.comThe EVErynding App! – Becuse it’s so unrelenting. Aside from the occisional reminder that Jeff ha Has not know caught on to the at-any-cost Mind-set of his peers, there are few glimps of humanitity.
That was the thing about Succession – Its characters were monstrous, but the show never Lost of their Fleshly Fallibility, Their Dubts and Vulnerability. Our awareness that these People weren’t Utter aliens Only Made the Terrible Things they Proved Capable of More Awful. Mountainhead Feels like the endpoint of Our Long Prestige Sheen Journey Toward Eating the Rich, Which Has Volleyed US Succession them Triangle of Sadness them The White Lotus them The menu. All Ares Comedies That Assure US The Ellite Are Miserable, Whether they Get What’s Coming to Tell or Not; They also allow us to enjoy secondDand experiencing of the luxuries they bask in and the terribleness with which they have treated other People. But there’s no Enjoyment to be found in MountainheadDespite Some Very Astuta Performance – Most of All from Smith, Whose Character is on the verge but also primed to take Everyone Down with Him. Armstrong’s Movie Invites US Into This Exclusive Reatti while Leaving US Very Much on the Emotional Outside of Characters who, Should they destroy Society, Will JUST INTO INTO THEIR BUNCERS ASSURING THERE’LL WORK OUT FOR THE BETTER IN THE END. “Nothing’s that fucking series – nothing means anyding, and everyThing’s funny and cool,” Venis at a Certain Point, a Guiding Philosophy FROM Rich Enough to Believe That. In MountainheadThe rich eat us, and there’s no catarsis to be found in that.
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