Like many, we watched this movie because we wanted to see how Steve Jobs was able to create so many epoch-making products that took Apple to the top of its game twice. But after watching it, we were disappointed with the movie.
First of all, using a two-hour movie to describe a great and complex person like Steve Jobs is bound to fail to cover everything, only to select key fragments. Therefore, this film focuses on the three product launches of Steve Jobs to connect the life of Steve Jobs with his relatives and friends. The whole film is like a drama, pushing the story through dense dialogue. This narrative mode is indeed relatively new, but in order for the various characters to interact with Jobs, the dialogue in the film must be constantly interrupted. Such frequent switching makes the audience very tired. Similar dialogue movies such as "Twelve Angry Men" and "The Man from Earth" all have in-depth discussions around one issue without switching. Before each press conference, Jobs' colleagues, friends, bosses, and daughters would suddenly appear. This setting is also a bit fake, making the audience play. Finally, one of the strengths of film art is the ability to depict different scenes. However, this play is completely limited to the stage, and it cannot give full play to the advantages of the movie to further infect the audience.
Of course, the above is a lack of narrative. But the biggest regret of this film is that it did not grasp the essence of the characters. And that's unforgivable for a character movie. The film focuses on describing Jobs' negative character. But is this really the right choice? It's no surprise that genius is often accompanied by flaws in character. And this kind of character makes Jobs's relationship with the people around him not handled well, which is also reasonable. But the meaning of Jobs' existence is not relatives and friends, but technology, design, and the future. The way he really communicates with people is to create a great product. But these are basically ignored by the film. Even if the screenwriter really wants to show Jobs' evil, he should explore how his evil personality affects his products, his business behavior, and even our world. But unfortunately, in this film, Jobs' character and his real meaning of existence are separated.
If I were a layman to write a script, I would choose the following scenes:
(1) How Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple for making bad decisions for various reasons when Apple 2 was in full swing. It will talk about his early entrepreneurial process.
(2) How to make a comeback through NeXT, gain experience, and finally return to Apple.
(3) How to slash Apple and find a space to survive under the pressure of competitors such as Microsoft and survive.
(4) Released a series of epoch-making products such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc., and Apple returned to its peak.
(5) Steve Jobs thought about the future of mankind in his mind, but no matter how advanced his vision was, it was eventually dissipated by the limitations of the flesh. But he is embodied in the product in everyone's hands. Although he has no friends around him, every time users use Apple's products, they are communicating with him in depth.
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