The movie Steve Jobs follows the story of Steve Jobs’ personal life and the successes and failures within it. It shows that the man who created Apple was a complete mess that had a plan that not everyone understood or could see. It is an amazing film that keeps you at the edge of your seat throughout its duration. It shows the interpersonal conflicts of this idolized person, and the greater conflicts he had based off of difference in intellect and being to fast paced. The perspective it puts the tech legend in frames him both as this horrific ass of a person, but also shows his expectations and reactions to those around him in the environment he himself built. It is a spectacular story that jumps around but always feels like the dialogue portrayed is continuous. There are many moving parts, many stories being driven in parallel and they all intersect with Steve Jobs as the certain conflict influx point. This movie makes the viewer believe that Steve Jobs is a cold and calculating person with no actual humanity, and over the course of the film we see that in reality this man is simply afraid of failure, attachment, and emotions. At least that is my interpretation of it. Towards the end of the film it becomes clearer that he is not in fact all those things, and all the pieces slowly fall together. Personally, I do not know how much of the film is accurate to history and how much is not. Whatever the case may be, it is an excellent movie that deserve praise regardless of its historical accuracy.
The films pacing is quick, it hits you boom boom boom. Even the slower more emotional parts feel like we are moving at warp speed. Interactions with Steve Jobs in this film feel like a demanding creator in need of perfection at every step of the journey. Never did I feel that the lines were rehearsed, it all felt like genuine agitation and interaction. The actors in this film did their job, and did it so well. It was amazing. I loved it, there are arts where you hate Steve Jobs for being an arrogant asshole, then there are parts that precede that where you feel like he is this boy running from emotions. It’s a wild ride for sure, but one I feel most people should go and enjoy.
The visuals and technical perspective of everything is on point, it feels like its a documentary filmed guerrilla style but also with rigs. The shots, are always perfect in my opinion. Even though the visuals feel so on point, it doesn’t feel in your face about it. There is no spunky visuals blasting everything into your face, it simply feels like you are there with them in the scenes.
Overall I think this film is amazing, I watched it while at the airport and honestly I really liked it a whole lot! I think others should go and watch it as well.
4/5
-Ben