Review of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) by Michael S — 17 Sep 2015

After seeing this, I'd have to say as a person who is a fan of Apple, and also being a person who read both of the Issacson and Schlender biographies -- I wasn't the audience for this film. Even though clearly, I'd be one of the first people who'd want to see it.

My main caveat with the work is that Gibney casts far too wide a net on the subject, in order to, as he may describe it, a full view of the man, and our obsession around him. It then tries to make us question that obsession by throwing all of the missteps that both he and Apple took while becoming the juggernaut that it is today. On both fronts, I believe, he failed.

I've heard all of these stories before, and while it made me wonder is maybe my own level of judgement is clouded by the fact that I like the company, I still think that as a piece of documentary storytelling, it had plenty more faults than that of its subject.