BlackBerry: Comedy on smartphone’s rise delights Berlin film fest
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"BlackBerry", a King Kong vs. Godzilla tale of the first smartphones, premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival on Friday, exploring geek culture, toxic masculinity and the birth of gadget addiction. The rollicking two-hour movie by Canadian actor and filmmaker Matt Johnson tells the true story of the heady rise and calamitous fall of one of the great inventions on the cusp of the new millennium. Research In Motion (RIM), based in Waterloo, Ontario, developed the BlackBerry, the first successful mobile phone with built-in internet access and a thumb-operated keyboard. It soon left millions of consumers, famously including Barack Obama, hopelessly hooked, earning it the nickname CrackBerry. The revolutionary handset would pave the way for Apple's iPhone, which ultim...