It’s fun to see these rich guys safe and unsafe in this expensive house.

There are many satires that reflect on our society, make us laugh, but also make us think about things. For example, about 30 years ago, we had a small dark comedy called “The Last Supper,” which was about a group of college liberals inviting all kinds of jerks to dinner and killing them with poisoned wine. If you haven’t seen or heard of it, its cast includes Cameron Diaz, Ron Perlman, and Jason Alexander. But more importantly, it’s still relevant today, regarding freedom of speech, liberalism, and political correctness, especially when history repeats itself.

And another example is the new HBO Max feature “Mountainhead,” which is about four rich friends reuniting in a luxury ski house in the Utah mountains, while the outside world has gone insane. I don’t mean “insane” like an alien invasion as demonstrated in “Save Yourselves” when two people decided to turn their phones off for the weekend. I mean “insane” as a global crisis regarding A.I. and riots. The kind where fake news and fake calls could either be real or fake, all generated by one of my hateful things. I watch the news at dinner with my folks, and I’m writing this movie review with my fingers. Not A.I. for the record.

The luxury ski house is known as “Mountainhead,” and its guests consist of the terminally ill capitalist Randall (Steve Carell), the social media titan Venis (Cory Michael Smith), and the A.I. genius Jeff (Ramy Youssef), and their gracious host Hugo Van Yak A.K.A. Souper (Jason Schwartzmann). Or maybe we should just call him “Soups.” We see them having fun on the mountains, wearing the same orange ski jackets and Soups writing numbers on each of their chests. These numbers represent how much these guys make in billions. Millions for Soups, but plenty of millions for him.

While they’re comfortable in this house, Randall, Venis, Jeff, and Soups all get various reports on what’s going on in Europe and Argentina and so forth. And they all spend all their time pontificating on money and society, and, of course, betrayal will emerge within these four guys.

Written and directed by Jesse Armstrong (the creator of “Succession”), “Mountainhead” has some good laughs and an honest aspect on how these rich guys live their lives, and what deals they want to make or can’t make. I may not understand what goes on inside their minds, but I can acknowledge that they have transhumanist ideals and want to reshape society. What tech figures wouldn’t want to reshape our world? And I’m still getting tired of hearing the initials “A.I.”

Carell, Schwartzmann, Smith, and Youssef are all charming in various aspects, and they deliver their dialogue with consistency and energy. I can sense when the actors know what they’re doing, especially when Carell has portrayed Michael Scott as rude and cocky from time to time on “The Office,” and when Schwartzmann has the pacing of a wise guy.

In lesser hands, this comedy could be slipping on ice, but in Armstrong’s hands, it goes skiing on the black diamond. Looking at this movie through my autistic mind, it does represent a black diamond-a more difficult, advanced-leveled slope. And there’s still a lot to think about after your view “Mountainhead.” And rest assured, I made sure autocorrect didn’t change it to “Fountainhead.” Take this in your pipe and smoke it, A.I.

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