We are Family, Reivew on Pirates of Silicon Valley

Genius can change the material, and mediocrity can ruin the good material. Pirates of Silicon Valley, shot in 1999, is more philosophical and insightful than Jobs' talk of Steve in 2013. This is not the strength gap between the director and the screenwriter, what else could it be?

Steve scolds Gates for betraying the family, but forgets that he is also a prodigal son who abandoned his daughter;
Steve blames Gates for not stealing his programming language, but ignores that he also steals his mountain pirate.
The short confrontation at the end actually runs through the reconstruction foundation of the entire movie.

Who are the pirates in the titled Xigu?
Is it Steve who plundered IBM,
or Gates who plundered Steve?
I am afraid that only future historians can decide.

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