The half told story of a genius

Rating: 6/10 (8 April 2016)

It's time again for a biography and another film about the IT- entrepreneur Steve Jobs, who passed away just a few years ago. He was portrayed on film in 2013 by Ashton Kutcher in Jobs, but now the famous screenwriter Aaron Sorkin picked up the story again and wrote a new script. Danny Boyle directed it and Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet stars as lead and supporting role. Steve Jobs is not really about the entrepreneurs' whole life, but divided in only three parts. Each part is about the game behind the curtains prior to different product releases. We follow him in these three moments through two decades, just the half hour before he steps up onto the stage.
Aaron Sorkin is known for writing very talkative scripts, like The Social Network or Moneyball. Steve Jobs is no exception. Fassbender fights and argues with Winslet, his family, his employees and his bosses. Every episode is suppose to represent and portray Jobs through different stages in his life, his distance to his family, his employees and his conflicts with the company Apple itself. Here is where the true strength of the film lies. There is much to take away from the dialogues and we can tell a lot just by listening and of course enjoying first rate acting.
Steve Jobs still becomes a bit boring. After you've understood the episode parts and how the story is told mostly through dialogue and not images, nothing more really happens. Steve Jobs is in the film and was probably in real life, a very difficult man to understand. I don't really feel like I know more about him than I did before watching the film. His problematic character and the constant driving forces are there but what really motivates him. There are a few parts that explains this, like his childhood, adoption and so on, but I still think that more scenes from several years of his life, would have been more interesting. Steve Jobs is still a smart film and I like the idea, bit to get more than three out of five, something else would have been needed.
David Lindahl - www.filmografen.se