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2015 · drama · biography

Steve Jobs

Directed by Danny Boyle2h 2m2015
ElsewhereIMDb7.2186kRT85%Metacritic82TMDB6.84k
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Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

Our read · Steve Jobs (2015) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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What watching it is actually like.

You want crackling Sorkin dialogue backstage at the personal computer revolution.

ends bittersweetit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 5attention 5/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if talky three-act chamber pieces about difficult geniuses feel exhausting.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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