Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

2015 "Bold. Brilliant. Brutal."
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine

6.9 | 2h9m | R | en | Documentary

When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in the suburbs, to zen temples in Japan, to the CEO's office of the world's richest company, exploring how Jobs’ life and work shaped our relationship with the computer. The Man in the Machine is a provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon.

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6.9 | 2h9m | R | en | Documentary | More Info
Released: September. 04,2015 | Released Producted By: Magnolia Pictures , Jigsaw Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.magpictures.com/stevejobsthemaninthemachine/
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When Steve Jobs died the world wept. But what accounted for the grief of millions of people who didn’t know him? This evocative film navigates Jobs' path from a small house in the suburbs, to zen temples in Japan, to the CEO's office of the world's richest company, exploring how Jobs’ life and work shaped our relationship with the computer. The Man in the Machine is a provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon.

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Alex Gibney , Steve Jobs , Ridley Scott

Director

Samuel Painter

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Magnolia Pictures , Jigsaw Productions

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fredpeterson Has got be my favorite documentary ever. Really dives into Jobs personal life and shows the type of person he was. From abounding his to daughter to taking shortcuts with the law this documentary covers all of it really makes me wish I could have met the man. Apple still isn't my favorite company though I'm not a fan of how closed in their products are and think Steve really screwed up the company by making it a luxury brand
Marko Granic Great movie about great man! Steve Jobs was a genius, but a strange person. This biopic helps to understand him a little better. Everybody is talking about that his communication with his colleagues was harsh and that he was tyrant, but we can see now that is necessary to get the job done. His love and passion for Apple and his products was fascinating. Great innovator, talent to change things in a way that is unexpected. He changed people habit of working with technology. Downside was his obsessive controlling disorder and his arrogance. It helped his to make great new gadgets, but made a lot of enemies around him. In some cases he acted like a spoiled child. Anyway, you should see the movie and judge for your own.
martinadigianfelice Wow this really sucks! It doesn't even need a review, it just sucks. Pretentious, driven (don't know what Jobs did to the director to produce such an obscenity) and technically pathetic. The music is bad, the editing is worse, the script is absolutely awful and it doesn't connect you to the story; and last of all points, but maybe the most important, it lacks of intensity which the man certainly had, it lacks of passion which the man certainly had and it focuses on the first part of his life when for Jobs' own confession he made mistakes. If you want to know anything about the man behind the most innovative and successful company on the planet (data-analysis say that) read the book of Walter Isaacson. That is complete, not driven (neither in a good or a bad way), truthful and fluently written.
AudioFileZ At times during the viewing of this film I felt as if the mischievous kid who loved getting one over on the phone company never really changed...only he could do what he wanted on a much larger scale. There is a kernel of truth wrapped in this and it was that Jobs was like a child right up until the end. He lived within his own reality and he was trapped by it. How can you dislike Jobs just because we all had to grow up and abide by the rules while he didn't? Well, in fact you can if you realize that Job's ways and means were at times costly which this film quickly goes to. To his closest friends and associates the cost was regularly painful, as well as life-changing often for the worse even if they prospered financially. Often a bully to employees if you were one who he considered an enemy you might be advised to move out of Palo Alto altogether, that is if you needed employment.This is a good expose' because it dares to show the lofty groundbreaking successes were achieved at high costs including eschewing philanthropy and the occasional disregard for high morals and the law itself. We're suppose to believe if you read another reviewers thoughts that this is the way it is done in the mega-business world and if Apple did it better, well, they just became more successful. If we applaud this as the American business model we're past just a slippery slope because, in time, we all suffer. Suffer as we're mesmerized and hypnotized looking into our Apple screens. Jobs had both visible (Al Gore to name a known face) and invisible shields in the highest places and though he could have possibly served prison time he was never even indicted for anything. On a comical side he may have been the only American who found a way to never buy a car tag...and he wasn't even called out for even this. By the way try this to see if it works for you...I was ticketed a few years back because I forgot to put my yearly tag renewal sticker on the actual tag - and I had it in the glove compartment at the time and showed it to the officer to no avail. I think Jobs took pride in being able to do what others dared to, even the tag thing speaks volumes.If you seen several other Jobs documentaries (I know they're 2 on Amazon Prime Video for example) I'd recommend this one because you probably don't have the balance of the darkest sides of Jobs and Apple. Apple, and Jobs, didn't directly murder anyone, but there were lives lost and destroyed regularly in the Apple eco-system. In the end while the film certainly applauds the success, it moves one to feel anger at the lack of empathy Jobs and Apple lacked, it will prompt disbelief of the disregard for the laws the company (i.e. Jobs) felt they were above, and do so even as one feels sorrow as well since the darkness was cloaked by success - like a wolf disguised as a sheep. Maybe the thing that stings the most is while Apple relishes being called the greatest American business success of the 20th century they don't even pay but a fraction of the taxes they should because of sending their wealth to Ireland, at least on paper (electronically of course). A needed less than stellar view to balance the many accolades it would seem. You get the feeling we've been so mesmerized by all things Apple perhaps we've all been brainwashed. See this film if you watched others because it takes an important different look inside the man who was, indeed, in a darker machine benignly called Apple.