‘Picture Character’ Review: Our Tech Overlords Tells Us About Emojis

In the midst of The Inventor, one of Alex Gibney’s tsk-tsking lackeys muses that while Silicon Valley can be trusted to manufacture emojis, when life and death come into the question, forget about it! In Ian Cheney and Martha Shane’s breezy and literally titled Picture Character (the translation of emoji in Japanese), we hear a lot about these emojis th…