Went to see the film “Steve Jobs: Divorcee Strikes Back” (2015).

When I was walking into the theater, I got wary: it was 3/4 women. For the first fifteen minutes I couldn’t understand why Jim Carrey was on the screen, and when they were finally going to show Steve Jobs. The women in the theater explained that Jim Carrey was Steve Jobs.

Brief synopsis of the film. Each time, an hour before three presentations (the Mac, NeXT, and the iMac), five people take turns coming into Jobs’s dressing room and start messing with Jobs’s head.

  1. Jobs’s ex broad, demanding money out of nowhere.

  2. Jobs’s illegitimate daughter, at first just tagging along with mommy, and when she’s older — with moral lectures for her father.

  3. Steve Wozniak, with a request to indulge his sense of self-importance.

  4. Apple’s CEO, whose life fell apart after he initiated Jobs’s firing.

  5. The marketing director, who asks Jobs to smooth things over with the previous four.

I kept waiting for Jobs to pick up an assault rifle toward the end and just start shooting everyone. Why come an hour before the most important presentations of his life and get in the way is unclear. Apparently, they’ll show that plotline in the sequel.

There’s nothing else in the film. There’s nothing about Apple, or the Mac, or inventions. The whole plot is Jobs doing his thing, while everyone barges in from the side with nothing to do and gets in the way.

But the women in the theater really liked it. “What a piece of shit Jobs was!” the women said, clicking their tongues.

One important detail. Imagine that a Hollywood director reads your biography, written by some writer, and makes a film based on it. Imagine what that film would be like? What will your close relatives and friends say when they watch this film? Without a doubt, there will be exactly one thing in common between your personality and what’s happening on screen — your name.

This is worth keeping in mind when watching the film “Steve Jobs”.