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Or maybe it’s a geek tragedy. However Steve Jobs isn’t really a biopic in the traditional sense of movie narratives, it’s rather a portrait of a man responsible for the digital revolution.

Sorkin then added fictional dialogue based on known fact and staged the film around three legendary product launches hosted by Jobs in 1984, 1988 and 1998. That’s why it’s described by Sorkin as an “impressionistic portrait”.

“Of course. I’m excited to watch it. I want to know more about Steve Jobs”, said Galvan.

In a refreshing reminder that the rest of the world is not up Steve Jobs’ ass the way many folks here are, the much-lauded Aaron Sorkin film about the Apple founder has reportedly “bombed” at the box office. In contrast to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s previous take on technology, The Social Network, which debuted to a cool $22 million back when Facebook was on the rise and your mom had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg, the life of Steve Jobs is a road well traveled. But darned if “Steve Jobs’ isn’t one of the year’s best films”, Linda Cook wrote in a review for the Quad City Times. It just didn’t feel like the movie was over yet. November releases include the latest James Bond installment, “Spectre”, the final “Hunger Games” film, and “The Peanuts Movie”. The sleeker, operatic NeXTcube launch was filmed on 35mm, the industry standard for decades.

Even if much of it is fiction, Steve Jobs is a highly entertaining movie, perhaps more so than it has any right to be.

Its depiction of Jobs, though, is just brutal. Have we officially reached Jobs overload? He had a life, a career, family, and friends before his awesome comeback at Apple, and seeing that version of the man is just as relevant, interesting, and appropriate as seeing the rest of him. However, by the end of the film Jobs takes responsibility for Lisa and realizes his love for her. “If a fire causes a stampede to the exits”, he declares, “it will be well worth it for those who survive”.

In addition to being a suave, muscular genius, the Steve Jobs of “Steve Jobs” is an insufferable bully whose leadership style wavers between demanding and condescending. “You can be decent and gifted at the same time”.

Michael Fassbender, who appears in nearly every shot, is expectedly tremendous (and kind of exhausting?) as Jobs, but it would be unfair to call this “his” movie. After Christian Bale twice left the project and other stars from George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio to director David Fincher were briefly involved, Michael Fassbender finally played Jobs, giving an electrifying performance that invites an Oscar nom. With the film now playing in theatres across the USA and Canada, a jet-lagged but eager Sorkin visited Toronto to talk about his work.