Steven Paul Jobs, popularly known as Steve Jobs, the man who revolutionized the popularity of personal computers in the 1970s, is now going to portrayed in a new biopic: Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. The new documentary is directed by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney.The first trailer of the film has already created abuzz on social media. The film opens with Jobs wearing his signature turtleneck and denims speaking at an expo saying,“Thank you for coming. We’re gonna make history together today.”The film is slated for limited theatrical release in the US on September 4.Gibney, who has in his repertoire films such as We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and Taxi To The Dark Side, interviews Jobs’ friends and relatives to give the audience a glimpse of the man’s personal and professional life.Jobs’ college days, his garage, where he worked with and his friend Steve Wozniak to brainstorm ideas and his dismissal from his company all find a place in this new biopic.In fact, Gibney’s documentary is already making news for portraying his “dark side”. “His stuff was beloved, but it wasn’t that he was beloved,” says a voiceover in the documentary.There is no denying the fact that Jobs was eccentric about his inventions and reinventions. He always wanted to create, innovate, embellish and upgrade his existing inventions due to which many of his personal and professional relationships were strained as described in his biography by Water Isaacson. But Gibney’s film is certainly does not go easy on Jobs. After watching the debut in March, Apple’s vice president Eddy Cue took to Twitter criticizing the documentary. “Very disappointed in SJ:Man in the Machine. An inaccurate and mean-spirited view of my friend. It’s not a reflection of the Steve I knew.”Gibney said the biopic could be as controversial as his previous film Going Clear, when he spoke to Varietymagazine in March. “After the Walter Isaacson book and so many other films, I didn’t really want to do a paint-by-the-numbers bio. I was interested in his values, the idea that when he died, there was a huge global outpouring of grief. People were weeping. I wanted to do a thing about Jobs, but I also wanted it to be about us. I set out to do an impressionistic film, structured in a way like Citizen Kane. I don’t mean to be pointy-headed. There are critical elements that people haven’t seen about Jobs or understood,” he told Variety.It’s not the first time a film is being made on Jobs’ life, Joshua Michael Stern made Jobs in 2013 starring Ashton Kutcher and Danny Boyle’s film Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender, is scheduled to be released in October.Follow @ARTINFOIndia
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