Aug 23, 2013 10:25 PM
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I ain't a tech-savvy person and I haven't followed technicalities of software, Operating systems, Macintosh or the launch of varied products of Apple Inc. I had heard of the company and had used a few of their products owned by my friends and had come across Steve's very popular Stanford Commencement Speech on the internet that I absolutely loved. I used to read about the man behind Apple Inc on the Newspapers and feel thrilled about his reported uniqueness and his style of living life on his own terms and values. In spite of being a dud in the matters of software and computer programming I started developing some sort of a strange, inexplicable curiosity towards Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. When Steve died in the year 2012 and there were talks of his biography by Walter Isaacson which was all set to be out in the market, I wanted to read it. Being a spiritual person, I was particularly interested to know what did Steve do when he came to India in search of Nirvana. I read the biography only until the pages where he comes to India and gets back to his adopted parents home and dropped the book right there. When I subsequently heard that there would be a biopic made on him, I decided to watch it.
The movie was slated to release on August 16, 2013 in India but I couldn't find any theaters screening it in Bangalore until today. Again, I was very curious to know how was India shown in the flick but was disappointed to see that there was only a tiny, negligible portion of the movie shot in India(quite obvious though). I absolutely loved Ashton Kutcher's and Josh Gad's performances and a couple of dialogues that Steve (played by Ashton) delivers and also liked a few conversations between the characters in the movie. Sticking to my style of writing reviews, I would request the readers to read the plot from Wiki and not delve into it here.
I have no clue why the movie has got such pathetic reviews from all over the world as I didn't find it THAT boring or as reported by many - a flick that needs to be downright avoided. Yes, as mentioned in the cons I did find the screenplay not all that engrossing and could find a few of them in the theater gushing disappointing shouts at regular intervals (especially in the first half of the movie). The movie picks up well after the interval and paces really at great standards once Steve Jobs comes back to Apple Inc after Next (another company that he runs after being forced out of Apple) is bought by Apple Inc. Its the climax that I really loved. Ashton Kutcher delivers these remarkable lines wonderfully well :
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
