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Steve Jobs 📱

Today's movie is a biopic directed by Danny Boyle streaming on Netflix

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Karl Delossantos
Mar 16, 2020
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👨🏻‍💻 Happy Monday. To start, just a reminder to help as much as you can, check in on your loved ones and do anything you can to care for each other. We’ll get through this.

Today’s recommendation is for Steve Jobs — streaming on Netflix — the too-often overlooked Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic about the late Apple founder.

Here’s what it’s about: Told in separate three acts, each marking a major Apple product launch culminating with the iMac in 1998, Steve Jobs dives into what made the late tech giant a brilliant enigma. [Trailer]

Why you should watch it: What’s so refreshing about Steve Jobs is that it is so kinetic. Exposition and character building so often bog down biopics but this movie thrives off of it. Under the direction of Danny Boyle, the film moves at lightning speed. It helps that Aaron Sorkin loves the walk and talk because it keeps the film moving.

Without the needs for clunky exposition, the screenplay is able to just explore what made Jobs tick and, more importantly, what …

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