Review of Jobs (2013) by Arjun N — 29 Dec 2013

What is wrong with the critics for Pete's sakes? This film was TERRIFIC!! Along the same vein of The Social Network, we have a person that against all odds is going to build a near flawless product even if the company goes down in flames.

Starts out with Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) attending an Apple Town Hall meeting in 2001 to introduce the IPOD. Ashton did a phenomenal job playing Jobs, down to his walk, talk and mannerisms. Then the film reverses to 1974 at Reed College where Steve was a student.

As many of us know, he never graduated. He travels to India and other places, then upon returning to the USA he lands a job at Atari and the plot goes from there. The script basically matches the biography I read about him.

Most of the events seemed accurate. I admire Job's relentless pursuit of perfection in technology, in his products and of course innovation since the IPOD was revolutionary, so was the IPHONE and their tablet the IPAD.

The film concentrates more on his start up and how he built the Apple empire especially the Macintosh computer. Despite his creativity and innovation, the real brains behind the products was Steve Wozniak (Josh Gad) who helped him tremendously during his Atari days and it was Wozniak who created the first motherboard that once connected to a monitor could display everything you typed.

If you read any of his biographies you will discover that Jobs refused to acknowledge paternity for his daughter Lisa, it took him years before he accepted it and after his friends helped him during the start-up from his parent's garage, he betrayed several of them by refusing to offer them stock options in the company.

Talk about major backstabbing! Furthermore Apple during Job's reign never donated to charity and it is not a company to offer discounts whereas Microsoft does to students, teachers, military and the government.

It was interesting, fascinating, enlightening to watch and what a pity it did not cover more ground. Oh gosh two hours does not suffice. Wish it was 2.5 or three hours long! (Baffles me because Man of Steel was 2.

5 hours long and it was nowhere near as interesting so what is up with that)!! I definitely recommend it!