Jobs movie - my takeA Story by ravimittalidHere is a brief review of the 'Jobs' movie along with brief account of Steve Jobs qualities.For a rare movie goer but a die hard Steve Jobs' fan, it was natural to watch the first ever movie released on him no matter who the actor, director is. Not only reading his autobiography, listening to his speeches like sermons; but also vehemently using his innovations for a long time now, I regard this maverick beyond any innovator in the contemporary world. To be frank, myself despite being labelled as fickle minded, the life and the qualities that Steve possessed have never ceased to dazzle me. The qualities I specially adore about him include his impeccable lust for finer details like rejecting about even 100 shades of white while selecting one for macbook, his love for simplicity where he follows Picasso when he said that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, his audacious & visionary brilliance which was imaginative in all aspects and bestowed him with the ability to see through the consumer stratagem where he believed that customer doesn't know what he wants by exemplifying Ford : if Henry Ford would have asked people what they want, they would have replied - faster horse and we never could have the cars. Too much admiration for this man seems quite strange in post supposed to be about my movie experience but it has been done deliberately to realize the film makers that they have either missed them or just showed them in a jiffy. Rather, his darker side which relates to his personal problems with his first wife and refusal to recognize his daughter, his rude behavior with his colleagues and employees alike have been emphasized more impetuously. In short, the movie seems to be pretty much out of balance as long as it brands itself to be the biopic of Steve Jobs. Not only this, the movie ends very abruptly relieving the best part of his life where he comes up with many innovations, his affair with pancreatic cancer etc. Acting also seems 'over-acting' in some parts of the movie. It's also hard to explain why director spent so much money directing a part of movie in India when actually he didn't want to show too much of Jobs' India's experiences. Two favorable points were that the facts, although very few, weren't played around with and that the movie drained no more than two precious hours. For a Steve Jobs fan, it was not only a disappointing but an EXTREMELY disappointing biopic. At the end of the movie, I just wished if Steven Spielberg could have directed this film with Daniel Day Lewis putting up his brilliant method acting skills. © 2013 ravimittalidAuthor's Note
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