Pirates of the Silicon Valley: Steve Jobs, his Friends, and Their Revolution

iPods, iPhones, iMacs, apple had made several breakthrough technological achievments, hard to believe that it started in a garage fourty years ago, and hard to believe that what became now a part of what we are, was just a "crazy idea", bu some former hippes, and how the quiet suburb of Sillicon Valley became the Mecca of Technology, and one of the most expensive places on Earth.

Okay folks we all hated history in highschool, but when a story is so relevant to what we are a do everyday it's good to take a look, and that's the purpouse of that movie, which tells the story of Apple computers, and the two visonaries behind it Steve Jobs (in the boardroom) and Steve Wozniak (in the laboratory).

This Film starts in the Macworld expo, with the historical return of Steve Jobs to Apple, and the deal he accomplished with Bill Gates (staring over his shoulders like big brother) then the movie comes back to the eary days in Barkley university and the student movment, how Jobs and Wozniack were making machines to make international calls for free, and how Jobs was already visionary and mystical, then to the creation of the Apple II, Apple Lisa, and eventually narrates how Steve Jobs ego became a danger on the company and how the constant pressure he maintained on his employees led to dramatic consequences for him and the company

The parallel plot focuses on Bill Gates, Steve Balmer, and Paul Allen, all undergarduate at the time, and how they were developing their own version of the DOS (i know young folks don't remember it but it was Huge a two decades ago, huh cousin ;), and how they became the richest people on earth.

While the movie focuses on the whole mouvment that lead to this huge breakthrough it's main focus is Steve Jobs (played masterfully by ER doctor Noah Whyle) from his early days to his rise to power, to his confronation with Bill Gates, after Bill did to him what He himself did to Xerox park, and how he came again to Apple to save it and turn it into the power house it is now.

And while it's clearly a made for TV movie, it's just one of these movies you can't miss, just for the mood and the historical value and the interpreation, and after you do that, you can go to youtube and watch the Steve Jobs commencement speech at Stanford, and for real, if all Megalomaniacs were like that, the earth needs more of them.

Jebbiness : 3/5