WeeView: Steve Jobs (2015)

Score: 8/10


A fast paced film, reminding me strongly of Birdman for its backstage drama and the continuous shots, though this doesn't have any of the black humour Birdman offered but is definitely more intense. The screenplay felt journalist presentation, a bit like TV series "The Newsroom" (in fact the use of Jeff Daniels, could be the reason as well). Daniels, I hope gets nominated for the supporting actor after obviously Michael Fassbender does for the lead. Boyle has consciously oriented away from the preachy jOBS (2013) and this has helped him big time. The talky-talky feel as well as the limited space of production design has a certain element of Fincher's masterpiece, "The Social Network", though this never nurtures as many motivations as that did. And towards the last part, it has the typical Boyle escalation, with music, which really felt right (like it always does!). In all, a fantastic film.
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