Steve Jobs, Legend and Sophistication

Ferne 2022-03-23 09:01:50

Obviously, it is almost impossible to show the complex life of Steve Jobs through a film. Jobs and the Apple legend he created are as fascinating as his complex personality and the grudges with his relatives, colleagues and friends.

This film uses a different conventional biopic narrative method, focusing on the three important products of Jobs before his death - the Mac that started the personal computer history, the NeXT formed when he left Apple, and the release of the iMac after returning to Apple. Through Jobs, colleagues and partners , ex-girlfriend and daughter, revealing his uniquely paranoid product aesthetics, as well as his astonishingly difficult to judge moral character. A distinct and three-dimensional Steve Jobs, he is pure, insists on a closed end-to-end product structure, and firmly believes that his unique and perfect products can change the world. But in terms of secular morality, Jobs was a complete mess, abandoning his wife and daughter, and even being ungrateful. But that's the real reality of Jobs.

The dense lines and the omission of the background of the characters and products require a certain basic knowledge to understand the film, which also weakens the watchability of the film. But this is a uniquely good film about the real Steve Jobs.

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Extended Reading

Steve Jobs quotes

  • Chrisann Brennan: What's the matter with you?

    Steve Jobs: What's the matter with *you*? Why are you telling her these things? Why are you still telling her I'm her father?

    Chrisann Brennan: A judge told her you're her father...

    Steve Jobs: No, he didn't.

    Chrisann Brennan: And where the hell do you get off telling "Time Magazine" that I've slept with 28% of the men in America.

    Steve Jobs: That's not remotely...

    Chrisann Brennan: Where do you get off?

    Steve Jobs: That's not remotely what I said.

    Chrisann Brennan: [picks up the magazine] It's right here.

    Steve Jobs: First of all, can I tell you something about "Time Magazine"? I believe it's a training facility for paid assassins.

    Chrisann Brennan: "Jobs insists," -- I'm quoting.

    Steve Jobs: I didn't invent math.

    Chrisann Brennan: "'28% of the male population of the United States could be the father.'"

    Steve Jobs: I wasn't saying you've slept with 28% of American men, I was using an algorithm based on the blood test which said there was a 94.1% chance that I'm the father.

  • Steve Jobs: What the hell cam a one-month-old do that's so bad his parents give him back?

    John Sculley: Nothing. There's nothing a one-month-old can do.