Steve Jobs successfully manages to put all the focus on the brains behind the giant that is Apple today, so much so that this biopic managed to make me like Steve the person even though I don’t really care much for his products.
Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs focuses primarily on the personal life of the technology entrepreneur, detailing his successes and failures in both his personal life and career. The film stars Michael Fassbender as Jobs himself, Kate Winslet at Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as John Scully and more.
What must be applauded about this film and it’s writing is the way in which both Sorkin and Boyle managed to keep the focus completely on the man himself Jobs rather than focusing on the spectacle that is Apple. The film is an incredibly dialogue heavy film but that isn’t a negative. Instead its a positive and works well especially for the type of story that both Boyle and Sorkin were trying to tell.
Standout performances came from both Fassbender and Winslet, especially Fassbender who gives possibly the performance of his life, so much so that he played the guy you love to hate but secretly love and you don’t know why but you just do. An honourable mention also must go to Hollywoods funny man Seth Rogen who manages to prove that there is much more to his acting ability than getting stoned and playing the same average joe character in all his films.
Essentially this film is a real eye-opener for those like myself who don’t live, eat and breathe everything Apple. Boyle introduced to many of the non ‘Applists’ the concept that Jobs wasn’t a god, like so many Apple loyalists paint him to be. Infact if anything Steve Jobs shows us that Steve Jobs was nothing more than human, a painfully complex human whose own complexity seeped into both his personal life and his life’s greatest work Apple.
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