Blackberry

Blackberry 

I had an interview for HMV recently. It was a team-based interview, during the Q and A, there was a question about overtime, as the hours on offer were only 10 hours a week contractually. The response was you have to get an app on your phone and be part of the WhatsApp group to see the availability of shifts. I asked if it was possible to just walk in and askthere’seres any shifts going that day then and there. It was like I slapped the management. I didn’t get the job. On Feedback,k I did not focus on ‘being a team’

 Then bought a smartphone, did my next job interview on Zoom, dressed up, and played with the background. I have a trial day next week.

So much of what occurred came down to the pioneering work dramatised in the film, and so much that went wrong ihad todo with the notion of ‘team’ that is the actual drama of this film.

Ostensibly and sold as a notion of an egotist corp lord in the form of Jim Balsillevs.s the idealist hack the planet dial a cliche 118 118 nerd-dom of Douglas Fregan with Mike Lazaridis caught in eh middle 

The film while revelling in the lunch is for wimp’s machismo vs. the movie marathon of cliches and tennis shoes of 40 year old virgins as images, only uses them for the laughs and billboard level of narrative. With RIM heavily in debt with defunct modems and a lassie fair form of selfishness that dDougembodies, it’s hard not to sympathise with Jim, given in short shrift, he loses his job, ploughs money into a company tthatpractially bankrupt and mortgages his own home to make this company work.

This is not an asset stripper this is a wounded man protecting his pride, as is every other lead in this fim. films that pride manifests are different, but you can’t see they are suffering the same thing. Mike’s need to be perfect soon shows he’s unhinged in the realities of public consumption. Doug stand may mature over the film, but it’s frankly too little too late from a guy who does indeed stick a sink plunger on top of a computer.

Given it’s a slice of recent history, it’s hard to give spoilers in a sense, and the film suffers from the few times it tries to make Jim a bad guy. His fraudulent activities with stock don’t have the impact given it’s just a bunch of big companies fucking with each other, certainly when dumb money shows the personal impact of stock markets and how little guys really should not give shit.

I would say it is stereotypical to hell and it’s hard to envision how it was all collegiate white guys shouting at other white guys, with one reference to one staff not having a penis. Also, frankly. I’ve seen how the lab rats behaved in the 90’s.revenge of the nerds is not problematic, it’s pretty much what they did. And that is what’s problematic.

But it is fair to make it a fairy tale when we are talking about egos that are all to some degree delusional. Be it the novelty of a touch screen or a desire to own the NHL.

It’s a slightly fun ride, but for historians, I’m sure there will be a lot of ahems and asides. Otherwise, I would say it’s an enjoyable evening stream with your airphones in while on your next commute. And in many ways a retro 90s with 80s sensibilities. So watch a bit of look at it now and then pop this on before bed. It’s worth a cosy coffee.