Blume and her son assured the audience that changes were made to preserve the film's narrative flow, which can be challenging in adapting a first-person novel.

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While Kodak invented many of the core technologies underlying digital cameras, its management was too addicted to the steady flow of fat profits from its film, paper, and chemical franchises to risk cannibalizing it.

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While these interchanges surprisingly do not interrupt the rhythm and flow of the objective cinematic experience, it makes the film tonally erratic, and the intellectual macro story continually pulls us out of emotional micro stories that provide the meat of the whole thing.

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Despite its cash flow and company strengths, Kodak never succeeded beyond its original camera film business .

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Variety critic Justin Chang concurred, saying the film "more or less embodies the sort of bland, go-with-the-flow creative thinking Jobs himself would have scorned".

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Shane Carruth's 2004 film "Primer, " for example, is so complex and methodical that fanatical bloggers have posted flow charts containing thousands of words of plot summary.

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