Matt Johnson Puts a Humanstic Spin on The Technological Cautionary Tale in ‘Blackberry’
There’s a lot to be said for the retrospective gaze, which can tinge even the most horrific of times with a protective glaze of nostalgia. How else could the men of Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry come off as quaint?
Couple that with the right location, and you can work all sorts of wonders. The tech nerds who built the world’s first smartphone and forever changed the way humans communicate hailed from Waterloo, Canada, and weren’t anything approaching visionaries, at least not as Johnson tells it in his docudrama-style fantasia.
