The Boy Who Sold The World is an entertaining look at boy genius Ben Pasternak, a master of the universe in the making (or has he already arrived?). One has to wonder if director Adam Barton got to the game too late or left his story a little too early despite chronicling his subject of the course of several years. The cameras start rolling when mom Amy drops the then-16-year-old Australian boy off at his new high-rise apartment in the heart of New York City. Known for his Apple unboxing videos and his iOS game Impossible Rush, which topped the app store charts, he declines multiple Silicon Valley internships to head to East Coast where venture capitalists throw money at him to develop Flogg, a social network similar for teens to buy and sell goods.
Hoping to take on eBay with his graphics-oriented platform that’s a bit like Let Go and Facebook Marketplace,...
Hoping to take on eBay with his graphics-oriented platform that’s a bit like Let Go and Facebook Marketplace,...
- 3/22/2020
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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