Insightfully Meaningful

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2019)

1 March 2014. After three years of avoiding watching this film because I knew I wouldn't like it, especially the title character, perhaps I had been channeling Steve Jobs or something, but now that the deed is done, I must admit I was wrong. There is subtle elegance in how all the characters came across. What makes this movie so meaningful and powerful is its deliver of non-stereotypical, flat, overly dramatic characters and instead the audience is offered up a more complex and deliciously appealing set of characters that seem real and sympathetic in almost every person presented. I enjoyed how the movie ended and how each character seemed to be a victim of the system of economics of business development, each with their own honorable take on how it should be.
This movie isn't so much about right and wrong, but how one's own personal identity interacts with the innate conflicts and tensions of anything new. There is both sufficient anger and sympathy to go all around. While I didn't like the constant flashback technique used in this movie as the background method of presenting the main story, I can't really come up of another way it could have been done, which says a lot in itself.