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Movie Review : Steve Jobs [2015]


This is an energy packed fast phased biopic movie about the late founder and CEO of Apple. There is never a moment in the movie you could get board. The accuracy of the movie is highly questionable given the fact that the whole story was told only through three product launch events from Steve Jobs. This means that the writer / director has to bring all the drama and dialogs in to this narrow set of events. It is a difficult task to narrate the story in this structure. The director mostly succeeded in this but did violate this structure slightly by introducing some flashback cuts in to the movie. The flashback scenes play the role of emphasizing some important messages but did not fit as smoothly in to the movie as rest of the scenes. This makes you feel that the director should have ditched the structure for a conventional narrative style.

 Another issue with the movie is that it is only meant for the people who are already familiar with Steve Jobs and the background story. The movie focuses quite a bit on the Jobs' cold and ruthless attitude in the pursuit of perfectionism which is fascinating to watch but misses on the mesmerizing charisma and the 'reality distortion field'  that he allegedly possessed. Though it is explained through dialogs, it is not convincingly portrayed in any scene. In one of the dialogs Jobs explains he is like a musician who does not play any specific instrument but plays the orchestra. It is a great dialog and it beautifully captures his role in Apple. This is another part of his character that the movie misses portraying visually.

 The incredible performance from the lead actors and the ingenious dialogs makes you forgive all its little flaws and enjoy the movie. The phase and tone of the movie is a perfect match for Steve Jobs’ personality. It makes the audience feel like an engineer who is standing in a edge of getting fired. There was a scene where there is a verbal clash between Jobs and Wozniak. The unintended spectators of this fight are the Apple engineers who happens to be there. They all wish to leave but they continue to stay partly because of the curiosity and partly because they are afraid to break the tension. For the most part the movie, audience will also feel the same way.

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