A movie that thinks different and succeeds

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2015)

The movie succeeds because it's doing what the company founded by the eponymous character does the best, and that something is innovating. The company's slogan "Think different" perfectly fits the movie, because it distances itself from the Oscar bait biopics, by having an unusual structure, being composed of 3 real time parts, each one of them taking place before the launch of a product(1984-Machintosh, 1988-Nesxt Computer, 1998-The iMac) these parts are sometimes intersecting with some flashbacks that show Steve Jobs in some pivotal moments in his troubled life.The movie gives you the feel a theater play and this way everything feels more natural. Also the tension that is building up around the launches of the products is ascended with the help of this structure, forcing the characters to have real time reactions, making their reactions more believable. The actors are totally immersed in their roles and they are completely transformed. In an interview Steve Wozniak mentioned that watching the movie felt like watching themselves on a screen. I can't really tell how were all these people acting in real life, but I can guarantee you that the actors' transformations were marvelous. Another aspect that shines as always when the name of Aaron Sorkin is written on a movie, is the sharp dialogue, that perfectly fits it's surrounding events and contributes to the building of the tension. The direction of Danny Boyle stands out too, each part echoing not only the life of Steve Jobs, but the life in those periods too, each part being filmed with cameras specific for each period separately. The decor around the actors plays also a large role in echoing these periods of time. In conclusion I have to say that this movie really stands out of the crowd, most probably this is the reason why it flopped at the box office, but as time will pass people will be more aware of its genius and it will be hailed as an innovation like the many products that the fruit company has lunched.