Steve Jobs [Blu-ray]

What's more important in life, making your vision come true or loving the people around you? That seems to be the central theme of this work, which constantly places Steve Jobs in the back room of his latest press event. While there, they paint an unvarnished picture of a man who many probably think was one of the great inventors of our time as, but who was more like a P. T. Barnum type of figure. This might be a shock for people who have deified this man and believe things like he invented the mouse and the personal computer.While I find it interesting that they have chosen to demythologize this famous figure, the movie itself has a few drawbacks. The movie itself is kind of more like a play than a movie since the settings rarely change. At times it's engrossing, but other times - since the movie is mostly dialogue driven - the dialogue can seem a little long (like the time he and his secretary are arguing about the house).Another drawback is the conciliatory attempts of trying to make the movie seem a little more balanced regarding his personality. Throughout the movie, they paint him as tyrannical and almost devoid of feeling, but at the end try to slip in a little humanity in his character. It just felt out of place given the tone they struck throughout the movie.I don't think Seth Rogan was a good choice for Steve Wozniak. I just have such an association with him as the character he usually plays, that I couldn't see him in this role. The director went with an unconventional choice for his main character, why didn't he do the same for the Steve Wozniak role?It wasn't about computers; it was about the man. Although I applaud this choice in a way, because it could have quickly devolved into another feel good success story, I think showing the evolution of computers could have added a little bit of spice to the story and made it less of a one-note stage play.All-in-all, I liked the movie. It was thought provoking and an interesting look at this famous man's life. Be warned, if you're the type of person who thinks this is a movie that heaps praise of the title character, you're in for a big surprise.

Was very informative and eye opening into Steve's life. I learned alot about Steve, his business partnerships and personal life.

There is no doubt Aaron Sorkin is one of the best writers working in the film industry today. So if he wanted to write for an episode of Doctor Who, he should've pitched his three-scene format and Steven Moffat would've loved the risk of developing a character in only three set pieces.I followed this project from when it was first announced and I'm thrilled to be disappointed by this. If this movie was as awesome as The Social Network then no doubt the price of that would've been Aaron Sorkin's balls. He didn't repeat himself except in one crucial failing that in one of the scenes of the aforementioned film he hinted at having some self-awareness of: "As if every thought that tumbles through your head was so clever it would be a crime for it not to be shared."It's time to be a criminal Aaron Sorkin. You mention in interviews over and over again how you grew up loving the sound of dialogue but it's time to realize this is an international world where English isn't always spoken but humanity still has to be shown. The more dialogue you fill your movies with, the more obvious it gets how very little else you know what to do with your characters and how much more of a burden it becomes for the actors in them to figure out how to use their training to convey character through silence, body language, and refrain.The three-scene concept is brave but how you travel through the story is exactly in your comfort zone. It benefits Steve's character development but no one else. Not even Kate Winslet, who, as someone with more than a modicum of experience with immigrating to another country and learning a new language all over, should've been able communicate her personality with action and expressiveness rather than unbelievably witty wordplay. You're pulling the reality there, Sorkin. I'm sure Winslet had a lot more action-based character development up her sleeve than slapping books off a table that she could've relied on without being oxygenated with every clever word you couldn't help refrain from writing without once considering that just maybe a Polish-American woman wouldn't sound like a rapid-fire witty screenwriter in a language that wasn't her first.Next problem would be Danny Boyle. No doubt Fincher would've been no less innovative in his direction of this piece, you picked the one director who has the worse problem with confining a character to one location without cheating through flashbacks and cross-cuts. Therefore, the movie feels incredibly normal in its structure and a complete shortcut through the labyrinth you promised with your premise. Boyle is one of the best explorers of the visual medium so of course he'll know how to manipulate time and space outside the focus of a given scene. But he's also a director who usually clocks in his films at a brisk pace of an hour and thirty minutes. For a story about creation, a poorly made father trying to reject creating a relationship with his daughter, there aren't enough character driven scenes to push the movie's length to a reasonable two hours.Though you've bored a lot of viewers off with confining the movie to three scenes, I could've seen the effort would've been worthy of the character development had there been more to explore through the people who actually helped get Steve to his inventions. Instead, this film feels like a diary entry from Steve Jobs himself. Strangely amnesiac of the people who helped him get to where he is with only a begrudging two-dimensional invitation to a few ghosts here and there.So, the strength of this movie can be salvaged in its choice to focus on the parallel of Steve's orphan dilemma with his inadequacy at being a father. Apple's CEO John Sculley screws up being a father figure to Steve Jobs who also screws up being a father to Lisa. The film is a labyrinth of dialogue but visually claustrophobic in spaces where anyone who's ever created anything are going to feel incredibly irrelevant to the creative process.Finally, the film's biggest mistake was not tapping into the teen demographic. You pick three presentations from Steve Jobs and you don't think that just maybe the launch of the Apple Iphone would've made this film a little bit more on-the-nose? Not all audiences 18-30 are stupid nor worth being condescended to the way Steve initially does with Lisa. This film had as much potential to be a zeitgeist as The Social Network if it were to choose the Iphone launch for its climax instead of the macintosh. But I can respect the filmmaker's sense of focus in being on the story they wanted to tell, even if it's not the story that is as salient to our times as the writer of this movie's previous effort.I can appreciate the hard work that went into this movie but sadly, for everyone involved, it does not match the thoroughness of their previous entries. Some reviews have stated this feels like a made for TV movie and for a visualist as creative as director Danny Boyle, that is just not something that should be expected from him. I would've forgiven the cinematography had there been more of it (and there were some nice mise-en-scene moments that showed Boyle knows exactly how to use camera motion, props, and set design to vocalize a character the way Fincher or Kubrick would) but the story that takes us through it feels too abrupt and episodic, lending more to the cleverness of the premise rather than using that cleverness to better show the arc of the characters and their relationship to one another.

broken DVD(Bluray) case, disc is fine, minor scratches.

Una vita costellata da fantasmi importanti che affollavano la vita di Jobs, fantasmi con cui doveva far conti tutti i giorni e rimorsi per scelte prese magari con leggerezza, date dall’ebbrezza del successo e dalla gioventù.Verso la fine del film vedremo un Jobs più maturo, calmo e più incline ad aprire le porte anziché bruciare e radere al suolo muri e barriere.Fotografia notevole, musiche d’atmosfera ben calibrate, il ritratto di un uomo complesso basato sulla biografia ufficiale di Isaacson: merita sicuramente una visione.Il miglior biopic su Steve Jobs realizzato al momento in cui scriviamo. L’unico che è piaciuto a Wozniak.Voto: 9/10

Der Film von Danny Boyle befasst sich insbesondere mit dem Verhältnis des Apple - Mitbegründers zu seiner unehelichen Tochter Lisa. Wie bei vielen Karriere - Menschen hatte die Geburt des Mädchens den Geschäftsmann eiskalt erwischt, und er weigerte sich viele Jahre, sie als seine Tochter zu akzeptieren. Doch innerlich, dass wird im Film deutlich, zeigte die eine oder andere kleine Geste, dass er sehr wohl verstanden hatte, dass er seinen Teil der Verantwortung viel zu lange vernachlässigt hatte.Obwohl Danny Boyle den Film mit Starbesetzung drehte, verzichtete er auf optische Ähnlichkeiten zu den dargestellten Personen. Das macht den Film nicht weniger interessant, trotzdem bevorzuge ich die Verfilmung mit Ashton Kutcher., schon allein wegen der Darstellung der wilden „Garagen-Phase“ des Jobs - Woyznak - Gespanns.

Blu ray arrivato con corriere in ottime condizioni, bel film che ho deciso di prendere in copia fisica perchè ultimamente latitante nelle varie piattaforme di streaming. Non racconta da zero fino alla fine la vita di Jobs, si focalizza su 3 momenti principali e con qualche flashback sul passato.

ottimo film, dialoghi strepitosi così come le interpretazioni degli attori, tutti davvero molto bravi; non è un film sulla vita di Jobs, piuttosto il filo conduttore è il rapporto con la figlia Lisa che fa da sfondo ai preparativi di tre lanci di prodotto epocali.Consigliatissimo a chi ama i film basati sui dialoghi ed il "potere" della parola.Lorenzo S.

Film avvincente ed emozionante, non ti lascia mai il tempo di rilassarti e ti tiene incollato allo schermo. Mi è piaciuto tantissimo sia come fotografia che come regia; ho apprezzato molto il modo in cui hanno raccontato la storia, sempre da "dietro le quinte". Consigliatissimo!!!!