This article containsSteve Jobsspoilers.
But it shouldnt be.
This kind of change of heart would end the film in lesser hands.
However, this reconciles nothing.
He cannot play father five minutes before the end credits and be forgiven.
Searching for anything, he narrows his eyes on Lisa Brennan-Jobs dated Walkman accessory.
Somewhere between 500 and one thousand songs.
Upon first viewing, I tended to consider this simply a wink to the iPod.
Only then does she come backstage and watches Jobs stroll victoriously into the international spotlight.
In that moment, she finally sees him as the world does: a mad prophet from another world.
Lisa now understands the universe on his terms.
Fassbender is, as he is throughout the movie, sublime in this moment.
Jobs final smile is of a man who has his thousand songs and is about to play them too.
Of course, this confrontation before the iMac keynote never happened.
However, they did have other frictions including over how Lisas mother sold their house.
Also, Steve Jobs in 1998 had not even yet mastered his iconic jeans-and-black-turtleneck persona yet.
That came a few years later.
In short, Steve Jobs didnt even look like Steve Jobs on the movies most fateful day.
But in the reality of this film, it hits a curious truth.
In the movie, it takes on literally Shakespearian implications.
Yet, the iMac finally validated his brilliance with marketplace dominance.
I have no idea but Id wager not much.
Factual or not, on some level, I suspect Steve Jobs would respect this more than fawning hagiography.
That might be worth chewing on before disregarding the heart of a biographic movie with an actual pulse.
