Review Subscribe

This is the first for me on BTN, a movie review. Well I say movie, more a documentary but ‘Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine’ is apparently the movie that Apple doesn’t want you to see.

The premise of the movie as you’d imagine is based on the life and times of the late and I think great Steve Jobs, but some may have a different opinion after watching this.

I’ll try not to go into spoiler territory but the personal and business practices of the Apple leader are well documented and are condensed into a movie that allows you to make your own conclusions but does try to sway you into thinking the worst.

It asks the question why after his death was there such an outpouring of emotion. Was it the man or was it the products that he is acknowledged for imagining?

Now I’ve spent a lot of my Apple fandom looking at the positives fully aware that you don’t become successful by being a nice guy and that is certainly not something that Steve is portrayed as in the two plus hours of the documentary.

With candid interviews from the people that were there you may come away with a different opinion on the man that changed the world of personal computing but cannot avoid his absolute genius and his ruthlessness to make Apple the company that they are today.

This really is food for thought. If you already had a negative opinion of the man this really isn’t going to change the way you think about him. But it may also conjure some admiration.

What it really does do is to make you think about the relation that you personally have with the products that he introduced and how this may have led to such a tidal wave of grief when he left us is 2011.

I really recommend this as a great watch even if just for the unseen footage that they’ve managed to dig up.

Author

Paul Wright

Gold Subscriber : $20.00 USD - monthly Silver Subscriber : $10.00 USD - monthly Bronze Subscriber : $5.00 USD - monthly