Reassessing the words of Steve Jobs – RTP

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Large cinematic event: far beyond the biographical conventions, through a remarkable argument Aaron Sorkin, “Steve Jobs” calls us to contrasts and contradictions of the legendary man from Apple.

Michael Fassbender playing Steve Jobs – the way to an Oscar

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Steve Jobs starting in the launch of three iconic products, ending in 1998 with the presentation of the iMac, the film shows the making of the digital revolution, drawing an intimate portrait of a brilliant man at its epicenter. Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Kate Winslet in the role of Joanna Hoffman, former head of the Macintosh marketing. Steve Wozniak, …

 Will this time that Michael Fassbender will win an Oscar … The question involves what appears to be a certainty: its central composition in the film “Steve Jobs”, so brilliant and subtle, will be worth it, at least one nomination for best actor.
 
 

Anyway, do not we simplify: a movie is not done just an interpretation … And in the case of “Steve Jobs,” directed with exemplary sobriety by Danny Boyle, it is worth mentioning another decisive contribution. Namely: the argument signed by Aaron Sorkin (winner in 2011 for an Oscar for best screenplay adapted by “The Social Network” by David Fincher).

 
 

Sorkin was inspired by the biography written by Walter Isaacson to arquitectuar a tripartite structure: Jobs found at iconic moments of his work at Apple (or against Apple …), launching products in 1984 , 1988 and 1998, defined their ideas and strategies in the evolution of computers.

 
 

 It is not a “technical” biography, much less a pamphlet (“pro” or “against”, it would also Manichean). It is, rather, a thorough job through which the film (re) discover the taste of light a rich character, fascinating, full of contrasts and contradictions – the splendor of classical dramaturgy do not need to build special effects …
 

 
 

 The presence of other magnificent actors, starting with Kate Winslet (in the role of Joanna Hoffman), is an important asset in a film that, after all, revalues ​​the simplest and the most complex. Namely: the opportunity to explain human nature as an entity that involves both revelation and concealment – to Sorkin, this is done, before everything else through single words power.
 

     

John Lopes Critical

published 0:33 – November 12 ’15