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Ted chiang understand movie7/2/2023 Not content with directing the new film, and writing it with Matthew Miller, he also stars as Doug Fregin, one of the creators of the BlackBerry, and, if the movie is to be believed, the most committed wearer of a headband since John McEnroe. It could slot into a holster on your belt, allowing you to draw it like a Colt and fire off a lethal message to that guy with the goatee in Accounts. Nonetheless, for a while, owning a BlackBerry was all the rage. A BlackBerry was a portable communication device, equipped with buttons so itty-bitty that they could not be comfortably deployed by anybody larger than Rumpelstiltskin. For those who were off-planet, or awaiting conception, at the dawn of the millennium, the title may need some explanation. Matt Johnson’s “BlackBerry” is a reminder that, in dramatic terms, rise and fall is almost always more gripping, and more morally provoking, than rise and rise. If you enjoyed Ben Affleck’s “ Air,” currently in theatres, but felt that it was too puffed up, here comes a lesson in deflation.
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