Review of Steve Jobs (2015) by Amanda C — 30 May 2016

This is the Steve Jobs biopic you want to see, not the one that suffers from wanting to be first out of the gate and casting Aston Kutcher in the lead. Steve Jobs gets it right, casting Michael Fassbender as the magnetic and tyranical powerhouse that was Steve Jobs.

Because it's all about charisma. Jobs was not a stupid man, but he was far from a tech genius. What he could do, was capture the imaginations of the masses and convince them that they needed something that was, in many ways, an inferior product.

Aaron Sorkin has crafted a whip smart script that focuses, not on the accomplishments of Jobs, but on giving us a snapshot into the biggest moments of his professional life as they intertwine with the personal.

It's not about the achievements of the man who helped to launch one of the most successful tech companies in history, on that has a monopoly on personal music devices and has managed to get people to fork over their hard earned cash on a biannual basis for phones that will be smashed within a couple of months.

Instead, it's about how isolating being a visionary is and the sociopathic levels that must be reached to become a living legend.