You do not need to do a great historical review of the transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first to realize that Steve Jobs was (or is) one of its great protagonists. Moreover there are those who put this controversial creator of technology at a level close to John Lennon or Martin Luther King. Reason why we have seen a huge need to fix and celebrate his multifaceted personality in various biographies, documentaries and fictional accounts. And if we were to summarize its purpose, we would say that was the dreamy need of man which allowed achieve something as unusual as love for a piece of technology.
Two years ago, the star of sitcom Ashton Kutcher caught her face in modest Jobs , and this year Michael Fassbender plunges deeper to feel the soul of this creator inspired by Bob Dylan, while documentarian Alex Gibney complete these two forays with a very complete route and supported in file and unpublished images in Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine , released in the US last September. This addition to the various biographies of Cupertino man. If nothing else, it’s up to planned an opera to bring the scene in two years, The Revolution of Steve Jobs , reporting period in which Jobs battled cancer that killed him on 5 October 2011.
Was this excess Steve Jobs on the screen, which generated an overdose and chased away people from the theaters, causing him to be, after all, his biggest flop? Maybe. The truth is that Steve Jobs , the film does not deserve the disdain. Not being a masterpiece, worth by the depth of the approach, largely due to the warp of the script of Aaron Sorkin, that summarizes the life of Jobs in three creative moments, like a play in three acts it were: the launch of Macintosh in 1984, in the middle of this spot controversial of a Big Brother with skinheads, the failed launch of the ‘Cube’ NeXT in 1988, and ultimately the success of the iMac in 1998.
Not being a masterpiece, worth by the depth of the approach, largely due to the warp of the script of Aaron Sorkin …
With the particularity of these different times to go behind the scenes the respective events and they hold at the exact moment before submission. Perhaps to make room for Sorkin interpret the sidelines of Steve Jobs himself. Be in the confrontation between the administrator Apple’s John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), the dissatisfaction of the former partner Seve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), the doubts of the designer of Apple Andy Herzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg) or misunderstanding of relationship he had with his ex -companheira Chrisann (Katherine Waterston) and his daughter Lisa (Makenzie Moss) Steve resisted accepting. Throughout this process, take the necessary decisive role responsible for marketing Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet). It goes without saying that the quality of this whole range of actors is beyond repair.
Of course, in the center of everything is the role and overwhelming presence of Michael Fassbender. Without any need to develop some mimicry, the actor focused on looking for those requirements that made Jobs a genius, a leader absorbed into details, but always dominated by the certainty of an inner strength that could be able to overcome any inconvenience. Maybe that’s why we do not wonder Fassbender see repeated a year later, his appointment to Oscar (in 2014, as supporting actor for 12 Years a Slave ).
However the ‘soul’ of the film is even Aaron Sorkin. The wise writer who knows how to exploit anyone, and words, the brain intelligence of its characters. He already the fallen in love with the intricacies of American politics in the series The West Wing, as well as surf the personality of another genius that would change the world, as Mark Zuckerberg, in The Social Network . Now Sorkin gives new life to Steve Jobs, in what would be a new covenant with David Fincher, eventually to disappoint and push an unlikely Danny Boyle, much more visual director, to embark on this journey.
key to the formula ‘think different’ maximum Apple made
Perhaps it is significant that Steve Jobs open with Arthur C. Clarke in 1974, the author of the book that gave rise 2001 A Space Odyssey a masterpiece of Stanley Kubrick who had an intelligent mega-computer named Al, explaining how he believed that computers could become in portable devices. Inspiration for Jobs may want to include a greeting to the user that initiated this operating system. After all, the element chosen to open the film, naturally dominated by doubts and limitations experienced in the few scenes minutes before the revelation of the famous Macintosh in 1984. This on the cover of Time magazine, which considered the device as Man of the Year.
Of course, the script of Sorkin and directed by Boyle were not interested in a closer record of documentary and before a kind of Jobs himself backstage. Somewhere between a glorified dimension of himself, capable of genius tear, to think ‘out of the box’, after all, the key to the formula ‘think different’, made maximum Apple. But Jobs could be genius, but also earthly brutal. Perhaps because this is so marked in the film the question of the withdrawal of his daughter Lisa – who later confess that he had given the name of the revolutionary Apple computer – after all, a dimension that makes it more human and therefore less perfect. Anyway, it will now be more sense to think of Steve Jobs when we heard Dylan sing Times They are a changin ‘.
Verdict
The fact of appearing as ‘another’ film about the founder of Apple brand will not subscriber in favor of Steve Jobs. However, this is a film that does not deserve to be overlooked. Not least because the powerful performance of Michael Fassbender will hardly be ignored by members of the Academy of Hollywood. Anyway, this is an excellent record on ‘behind the scenes’ of Steve Jobs.
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