Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

2015

★★★½ Liked

"He had the focus of a monk, but not the empathy."

It's hard to imagine two more disparate approaches to a single subject as this documentary, which is long and shaggy, and Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, which attempts to distill the same man's life into three nearly identical scenes. I didn't love either movie; in some ways the flaws of one are the strengths of the other, and vice versa. Ideally, they'd probably seen together as a double feature. Maybe on an iPad.

I'm also grateful to this movie for crystalizing my New Year's Resolution for 2016: To embrace boredom.

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