Alex Gibney's Documentary - "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine" Revisits Job's Life Once Again

Alex Gibney's Documentary on the most complicated techie, Steve Jobs has brought a nostalgic commotion in the memories of the viewers sweeping them back to the flood of emotions in 2011, the day when Steve Jobs died. Apple stores became the altar where people flocked in scores; left letters and their signatures in tribute to the man who changed the way people connected with each other. The event finds its place in the film.

The film is not a chronological timeline of events from Jobs' life but Gibney's personal experiences with charisma called Steve Jobs. There are interviews from familiar faces like Chrisann Brennan, Daniel Kotte and Bob Belleville narrating the incidents about his denials and dealings, nothing new but what catches the eye is the paradoxical love in hate tone of the narration; the surge of love and gratitude in the hearts of those who were on the receiving end when Job was in their life. How could they forget the abuse and still feel an emotional connect with him?

This documentary by Gibney moves in frames: clips from old video-interviews of long- haired Jobs to tech- guru dressed in his signature turtle tees during numerous launches and demos of iPhones and i Pads; key events of his career including his rise and fall; comeback to the troubled Apple company which became his playground where he played a scintillating innings of victory and broke all the records of success with the help of ultra-sophisticated, sleek piece of metal as his playing tool to the portrayal of his failings, ruthlessness, denials, aggression, deceits and then he moves on to offer glimpses of his spiritual retreat Eiheiji, a Japanese Zen Buddhist temple; the perfect, peaceful and pristine aura of the place matches the perfection and standards of beauty of the man who was in the machine or a machine that was a man.