BlackBerry
A classic tale we have seen countless times the entrepreneur biopic, I loved the mockumentry style this had literally having it at the beginning looking like the people were breaking the fourth wall.
Doug being this transcendent celestial being throughout the story literally not aging or changing any way of appearance I thought it was so funny especially seeing as he was the director for this.
I loved the story of the blackberry obviously predating my time but I do remember using one when I was young and seeing them around the fact that Mike was just a noble humble nerd trying to make history but you won’t make it in a treacherous market being so noble when everyone is trying to use, lie, cheat, and screw over each other for monetary gain.
You have to stoop to that level in order to make it in the world that’s where Jim comes in he has the presence the aura needed to lie and manipulate his way to get what he wants and it’s exactly what blackberry needed to get where it got only downside is once you let that parasite in it will do anything to consume it whole. The fact that Mike slowly started turning into Jim seeing that the change was needed in order to succeed it sucks working with friends cause you just want to mess around have fun but you also got to be able to lock in and it’s hard to have to be the boss of your friends as you could see Doug and mikes friendship broke he completely went against what he believed it.
Doug being the angel on his shoulder trying to remind him of his values and beliefs a symbol of how it all started , then Jim being the devil telling him to have a ego to turn against his values outsource the work lie about products be unapologetic. In the end it all came to bite jim in the ass and Mike got a reality check on what was really going on in his company he had it all created a market that didn’t exist before the click but like all great technological advancements another one comes to take the flame right from under you if you can’t keep up you’ll crash as fast as you flew up.