अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंFour friends reunite during worldwide economic turmoil.Four friends reunite during worldwide economic turmoil.Four friends reunite during worldwide economic turmoil.
- British Newsreader
- (बिना क्रेडिट के)
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It's billed as a comedy, and it is, but not in the form of jokes or slapstick, but in mocking. The characters are a caricature of tech founders, how they act, talk, etc. And they nailed it absolutely. The underlying theme stitched throughout is how Godlike and smart these people feel they are, while in actuality unable to do even simple tasks.
I've had the displeasure of having known two wealthy tech founders, and every single line and situation reminded me of them, only slightly more absurd of course.
I'm rating it high because I think they absolutely captured the mindset and what a joke they are at face value. But it dawned on me that it's more like an inside joke than something to release a movie about.
If anything it falls a bit short watching how reality is even more idiotic right now, with a dementia-ridden head of state and his ketamine-fueled billionaire pal, but nonetheless it succeeds in showing how terrifyingly dangerous powerful petty men can really be when they feel their time is running out.
In short, a great black satire that maybe doesn't dare to go the whole way, maybe because the filmmakers do need to at least understand it's characters.
All four narcissists arrive with personal demons. Ven (Cory Michael Smith) wants to go "post-human" to relieve the stress that plagues him as the richest man alive. Randall (Steve Carell) is terminally ill and wants to live forever. Soups (Jason Schwartzman) is an insecure centi-millionaire desperate to crack the billionaires' club. And Jeff (Ramy Youssef) is the young upstart whose conscience weighs him down... although it's unclear whether that's a pre-existing force in his life or just the result of the technology he sells (i.e., guardrails for AI). Regardless, Jeff is the voice of reason and the audience participates through his journey; whatever happens to Jeff can be seen as happening to all of us.
The Succession vibe is felt on every frame, surely by design. Armstrong brings back Nicholas Britell to provide the score, along with many of Succession's executive producers and crew in their respective roles. Since there's no way for a 100-minute film to replicate the nuances that made the show so popular over four full seasons, Mountainhead's cast attempts to re-create the same magic from scratch.
On that front, the actors hold their own. Carell and Schwartzman are as reliable as ever, but Youssef and Smith are the real standouts. They somehow land their lines without getting in each other's way. This is particularly important given the tech-speak that populates the script: boss cock; surpasso; emotionally incontinent; AI dooming; deceleration alarmism; doom-looping; de minimis; 8K photo-real; the antidote to bad tech is good tech... I mean it's an endless stream of rapid-fire gobbledygook--- but you never feel trapped or disoriented as a viewer. I credit that to their preparation as individuals and chemistry as a group.
In terms of the point of the movie, I feel it could have been tightened up somewhat. In one hilarious sequence, a character is pressured by the others to acquiesce to *their plan for *his future: "Smile... show your teeth!" It's a brilliant, meaningful line that gets reiterated a few times, albeit too subtly for my taste. I think it could have been uttered at least once more to emphasize the idea of smiling for the camera while being forced against one's will, and thereby summarizing life under an oligarchy: we're merely pawns in somebody else's game.
Another exchange I enjoyed which reflects the dialogue in the film:
"I just feel if I could get us off this rock it would solve so much!" - Ven
"Well you know, it's a solid starter planet but we've outgrown it, no doubt." - Randall
"I just want to get us transhuman! Life up on grid, Tron biking around, digital milkshakes!" - Ven
"To actually be in Plato's Academy *with Plato!" - Randall
"I just feel like the universe is taking a grip and tearing me apart. Like my torso's getting pulled apart with tremendous force and the emptiness of the galaxy is just rushing in!" - Ven
"Mmm... not good." - Randall
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Whether Elon-Zuck-Bezos actually talk like this is besides the point. The film is fair in marking their priorities, in the same way that insiders claim the satire of Dr Strangelove could have easily happened in real life. To me, we can pursue life "up on grid" when we're dead- I'm sure there's plenty to discover out there lol! But to push into new galaxies at the expense of the world we've been blessed with is self-defeating. Mountainhead is clear about this, as well as the absurdity of rich people having the power to impose their will on the rest of us, plunder the earth and promote chaos in order to bankroll their next project, especially when none of the fruits will even be seen in our lifetimes-
I think this is where they want me to show my teeth.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाJesse Armstrong began researching the topic of billionaire crypto-fascist tech-bro culture after reviewing a book about Sam Bankman-Fried for the Times Literary Supplement in late 2023. He began writing the script after Donald Trump won the United States presidential election in November 2024. The film was finished six months later.
- भाव
Souper: [brandishing a golf club at Jeff] This is about AI dooming and decelerationist alarmism!
Jeff: What the fuck? First principles! What are you trying to achieve?
Randall: We are trying to kill you! Gas him, burn him, drown him!
Jeff: Okay, your attack makes no logical sense!
Randall: When we have started, we have to complete!
Jeff: Sunk cost fallacy!
Souper: No, we have to continue due to reprisals!
Venis: We're completionists!
Jeff: No, no, we're not, we're not! We fail, we move on, we fail, we move on, we succeed!
Souper: Not necessarily!
[swings golf club at Jeff]
- कनेक्शनReferenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 996: The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
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