“Mountainhead” shows that we live in the worst of the worlds
The fun with Jesse Armstrongs The breakthrough series “Peep Show” was that all ruined developments, and the far -reaching humiliation of the two pathetic protagonists, felt credible.
How unlikely it was, the scenes in something real and real. What made things worse. And more fun.
The same experience was brought from the political satire of Armstrong “in the loop” and beautiful masterpieces “follow -up”: since the reality always exceeds the poem, a finesse -poem can go extremely far without becoming unrealistic.
The new film by Armstrong, “Mountainhead” (HBO Max), is praised legitimate, but is in many ways only a putlaggues. A quarter of a billionaire on mini holidays in the house of a rich man. Techoligark-Guys, who are worth all our contempt, calls itself things like The brewers And Dad Bear. The only one of those who are not yet a dollar billionaire is called the “soup kitchen”.
During relaxed recreation Confirm the wealth and the unique meaning of each other in the universe. Outside the house at the same time, the world falls into pieces when murder waves, riots, war and government crises reveal themselves in the aftermath of new updates of the technical tools that this rich man Bende offers.
The message is simple: those bastards destroy everything, nobody stops them and they think they do something nice, cool and especially important for the future. Their most horrible thoughts are motivated by long thermism rhetoric, they must burn the world here and now to save the future of humanity, “we save future lives”. Intellectually and ethically expired, re -packed again as brilliant, related to the imagined dressed -view of the future found on William Macaskill or Nick BOSTROMThe whose flat and dangerous view Karin Pettersson Previously powdered here on the cultural side. Not to mention the most obvious model of the film, Elon Musk.
These are the richest men in the world, they see their strength and are intoxicated. With self -confidence so high that in a minute they realize that they are better suited to control the world than everyone else. And especially better than the chosen people.
Do you have to use their social media networks, are AI and his multi-billion power over infrastructure to make a coup in the United States, to include as a shadow president in Argentina or to put the availability of electricity in large parts of the EU? Why not?
It is one Nice movie. Steve Carell And Jason Schwartzman is in high form. At the same time it is a very unpleasant role. Unfortunately, for the display of the PIE series of the capitalist monsters, a very factual description of contemporary exercises and democracy -roof edges is a very factual description. That’s exactly this Naomi Klein And Astra Taylor Be in their text about destruction fascism and the plans for the future that are grown by what they call “business sectors”.
The real stock “Mountainhead” is the realization that we live in the worst of the worlds, led by human Imbecile – indifferent to everything outside their own ego.
It’s not a satire. It is a documentary. Staff.
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