Alexland...

Before this movie, I thought of Steve Jobs as a guy in a black turtleneck who was soft spoken and always seemed to smile to himself. The movie was set up in a fairly new and dynamic way, three product launches. In that way, it held more structure to the plot then somelike the facebook movie did. Micheal Fassbender did a great job at showing tenderness when looking at a childs drawing, the pure anger towards a man who tried to stop his product, and that annoying but correct and ever-relentless spirit of man who has to do everything to the best quality whether its keeping a floppy disk in your front pocket to making sure the exit signs are off despite fire regulations. The movie sorta just looked at how well Steve Jobs did under stress, but missed going into detail the more quirky parts of his life: like why he arranged his speeches and papers on the floor, why he didnt have furniture, why he used quotes from the bible so frequently-was he a religious man? He seemed to like songs lyrics too! The movie only briefly mentioned his business tactics and he didnt seem like that much of a back breaker to other companies, (moreso it was interesting the guy who invented a perfectly measured computer cube to be bought out was the same guy who had to cut out and lay off all the “B” players in Apple to bring the company back from the verge of Bankrupcy). The movie did bring up a lot of his personal life back stage, making it feel that Steve Jobs personal world of relationships was now merging more into business. I really liked the few shots of the crowd, like when they were stamping their feet so that the ceiling above steve jobs shook, or when they did the wave or even the fact that all the launches were in Opera houses, really brought the impact of what Apple was to people. Im glad he reconciled with his daughter, but was a little upset she didnt give him an article to read at the very end.