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Hi.
You didn't tell me they built an Apple store next door.
Yeah, there's practically one on every corner.
Don’t tell me that it actually threw you.
I thought that, that was just your schtick.
It's not schtick.
Okay, well, if you could just smile, because you're so pretty.
No, I really don't want to do this right now.
Please, please, please, please, please.
No, no, I just need to focus.
Thank you. - Smile.
Oh my God! No, so cute-
Hi everybody.
Uh...
Good evening.
My name is Claudia Lerner.
Um...
Silicon Valley is exciting,
but it can also be pretty suffocating.
It hasn't always been that way.
Some places are more than a place.
They can hold power.
They can change you.
You're probably asking yourself,
who is this young female author standing at the podium?
And I wish I asked myself that same question a lot sooner.
So without further ado, this is the Book of Jobs.
♪ 3, 2, 1, you're so fun
♪ The best thing underneath the sun ♪
It was 1998.
Here in my own private paradise, I felt completely safe.
♪ But I’m the one to be your man ♪
♪ And you’re the one who understands alright ♪
♪ You’re the good kind ♪
♪ Think I love you
♪ Such a good...
My parents had planted us smack dab
in the center of Silicon Valley.
♪ Just adore you
My dad preached the possibility of this place.
It was my Garden of Eden.
My oldest memories are of these giants.
I remember searching for where the trees
ended and the sky began.
California became my religion,
and there was a messiah here.
All right.
♪ You’re the good kind ♪
♪ Think I love you
My little hands grabbed hold
of the apple and bit down.
Hard.
♪ Just adore you
People were running
and someone was shouting, something hit the building,
something hit the building.
Well, we saw just moments ago,
we saw in our studio here,
a plane,
crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center,
that was the second plane.
So, two planes have now crashed, uh,
each into one of the World Trade Center towers.
What we can only surmise at this point...
Thank you for showing me what a loving home
I have to return to after a 14-hour day at work.
I don't have any other time
to talk to you about these things.
You're never here and when you are it's no different from
when you're not.
What do you want me to say?
I work my fucking ass off for our family.
Bullshit! This isn't for us, it's your ego, you never
outgrew that shit.
We had an agreement, now you're unhappy with it.
We had a partnership.
It's not working, this isn't working.
That's why I think we need to be realistic
and actually talk about it.
This is not talking.
I just... I'm trying to tell you
how it feels on our end.
This isn't Boo's door.
Boo? What's Boo?
That's what I decided to call her, is there a problem?
Sully, you're not supposed to name it.
Once you name it, you start getting attached to it.
Now put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!
Oh, hey!
We're rehearsing a scene
for the upcoming company play called, uh,
Put That Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me.
It's a musical.
Put that thing back where it came from, or so help me.
It was sensational, I can't even describe it.
Listen, Sweetie.
Who follows up a run like that with something even better?
I mean, he does Toy Story, A Bug's life,
Toy Story 2, and now this.
Buddy, we need to discuss something.
And that ending, even the adults teared up, honest to God.
- This is really important. - I can't believe
I've been twice now and you still haven't seen this.
How about we go next Friday? I say we beat the rush-
We're getting a divorce.
Nice one.
What was I supposed to do?
Honey, I know this is gonna be difficult
so if you want to talk about anything,
we can discuss anything.
Get down, get down!
Earthquakes were an inevitability
of living on the San Andreas fault.
I just didn't expect one in my own home.
I found comfort in the fact that Jobs was born
into a broken family.
Have a great first day.
Thanks, Mom.
Here, let me help.
Thanks.
First day of middle school and my backpack breaks, go figure.
Well, you shoved enough books in here to build a library.
How many classes are you taking?
Eight.
Hey, look! We both have art elective after lunch.
Awesome! You know, Steve Jobs is an artist.
That's how he came up with such beautiful designs for Apple,
and that's why I signed up for art.
Are you any good at drawing?
If you are, maybe you could design computers one day, too.
I just get excited about things.
I'm Lucy.
Claudia.
Let's go.
How does someone become your best friend?
I was careful.
She was carefree.
But Lucy always told me the truth.
Sunflower G4?
Nice.
You're kind of weird about computers.
I'll be just like him.
Who?
I'm going to be Steve Jobs, but a girl, of course.
You know, you're completely nuts.
Don't you have an iPod?
Look.
You just connect it to your computer,
and can have all the songs you want right in your hand.
Cool.
♪ Win, win, win yeah that's my motto ♪
♪ That's so, so cold like a cup of gelato ♪
♪ I'm a trendsetter so they all gonna follow ♪
♪ Yeah, they all gonna follow
♪ Me to the beat, 'cause the beat they feelin' ♪
♪ One step ahead I ain't got no ceiling ♪
♪ Take a look at what I've got ♪
♪ I got everything I need and get everything I want ♪
♪ It's unde-unde-un
♪ Undeniable
♪ It's unde-unde-un
♪ Undeniable
♪ It's unde-unde-un
Who's that?
♪ Undeniable
It's my dad.
♪ Undeniable
♪ Run, run, run gotta make it happen ♪
♪ Everybody's side stage, I can hear 'em clapping ♪
♪ All this money stacked up, I can't even count it ♪
♪ I'm a star
Don't be sad.
It will get better.
How can you say that?
Because it has to.
Oh, what do you want to listen to next?
I don't really want to listen to music anymore.
Just try to think positive, visualize what you want.
What if that doesn't work?
We should make a pact.
We promise to stay best friends no matter what
for our whole lives.
You're kind of insane.
We'll start by sticking together through
high school, then we'll go to the same college.
Where do you want to go?
Stanford, obviously.
I'll study computers like Steve Jobs,
and you can... - Be a painter,
or a veterinarian.
Maybe an archaeologist.
You like that color, huh?
It's called Macintosh.
Like the computer and the logo.
Yeah, I get it.
Hey, hey, wait, wait, can I, can I talk to you for a second?
There's something I wanted to tell you.
You know how I've been going to the doctor a lot recently?
Yes.
Well, they've been trying to figure some things out.
And, it turns out that...
I have cancer.
But, I am optimistic.
They are catching it very early.
On the outside, I was silent.
Inside, every corner of my brain was firing on a loop siren.
She will not die.
And the doctors have a whole plan.
I'm starting treatment next week.
- At Stanford? - Yeah.
How lucky are we?
W-what do you mean?
To have revolutionary research being done right
here in our own backyard.
Those doctors will have everything you need.
Yeah, Stanford Hospital is wonderful.
It's all because of Jobs.
They just blow all the other hospitals
right out of the water.
He's made them totally raise their game.
Did you join some kind of cult or something?
People must travel from all over to get treated here.
You know Stanford's been
around a lot longer than Steve Jobs?
This is the gold standard, the Emerald City.
If you've got cancer, Stanford's the place to be.
- Yes. - You're going to get the best
treatment in the world because Steve Jobs represents
the best in the world and wouldn't live
anywhere else.
You're going to beat this.
Well, that is the plan.
And I am gonna fight so hard.
But just in case this treatment doesn't work out,
you know, there's trials all over the country.
You've got this, Mom.
Huh!
Booyah!
Jobs was infamous
for his reality distortion field,
a phenomenon in which he would convince himself
and those around him to believe almost anything.
Utilizing a perfect cocktail
of charisma, hyperbole, and persistence.
He thought he could make the impossible possible,
I believed I could do the same.
Oh, how beautiful is this?
Mom's getting chemo today.
Yeah.
And, I feel...
I feel terrible about that, but
we are here.
In our favorite restaurant,
having just driven the most beautiful road
in the world and...
Hey,
remember how much you like the creme brulee here?
I do remember.
I remember because we've been here
a hundred times as a family.
Mom has cancer and we're here getting caramelized custard.
Why don't we hop in the car and you can drive us home?
You can go back to being a good husband and father,
and we can put this whole thing behind us.
That is enough.
Enough with the midlife crisis, Dad.
- Okay. - You're better than that.
This is beyond inappropriate, Daniella is sitting right here.
You're so right, I'm sorry.
Daniella, let me ask you.
Do you think my dad should be dating someone 10 years younger?
Or go back to his sick wife who needs him and his only daughter?
Claudia, leave her out of this.
Look, Daniella, you seem like a nice lady.
I love your hair.
Why don't you tell us your address,
and we can drop you off on our way home?
I doubt she wants you knowing where she lives now.
Claudia, I don't think I deserve any of this.
You are making her feel awful.
So quick to defend her.
Give us a break.
What will it take? Huh? I'll get better grades?
I'll stop being so annoying.
Claudia, contrary to what you think,
it isn't about you all the time.
I'm not gonna sit here listening to this petulant shit all day.
I am the parent, you are the child.
This conversation is over.
Do you want to talk about it?
Before my dad's stroke, my mom found out he was cheating.
They were gonna get a divorce.
Now she's stuck taking care of him.
We can't put our faith in men.
Otherwise, we will end up like our moms.
I can think of some great male role models,
like Steve Jobs, for instance.
Jobs had a kid with his ex-girlfriend
who he rejected for nearly a decade.
If you think you're helping, you're not.
Look,
I don't exactly know what went down with your parents,
and I don't have to.
I'm just saying, I know what it feels like to be betrayed.
Has it ever dawned on you that I'm not like you?
That I'm not like other girls at all?
I'm a rebel, a misfit, I see things differently.
You can vilify me- - Oh, my God.
If you keep quoting a think different commercial,
I'm actually gonna throw up.
I have to go to the bathroom.
No.
This isn't happening.
What are you doing in there?
What's that?
Nothing.
Why'd you just throw your underwear away?
I had an accident.
You're not 4 years old.
Just leave it alone.
What the hell is going on?
I just...
I just got my period, I think.
Impressive, it'll be fine.
First of all, throwing your underwear away
won't make it go away.
It'll just make it worse.
Look, we'll just get you a pad.
There's no pads? Do you have any?
Of course not, you know I haven't gotten mine yet.
What am I going to do?
I can feel it down there now, I can't go back outside.
Well, we either ask your dad's girlfriend for help or...
But, I haven't gotten to that chapter in the
American Girl Body Book yet.
Claudia, talk to me.
What's going on in there?
Won't go in.
Luce, I don't think I can do this.
There's a reason girls don't use tampons right away.
You need to relax.
Can you change the angle or something?
To what? This?
- Ouch! - How about this?
- Lucy! - Give me some help
on the direction here!
Try changing it 15 degrees clockwise.
I'm not a mathematician.
I'm telling you, I think there's something wrong.
Maybe my vagina is messed up.
Maybe I have the one vagina that doesn't work right
and the tampons won't fit.
And as I sat there in despair, it hit me.
W-W-S-D.
What would Steve do?
Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
Are you quoting Steve Jobs
while you try and put in a tampon?
I'm just changing the direction a little bit.
Maybe, if I...
Ah-ha! It's in!
- It's in? - It's in! Ah!
Some obsessions fade
once high school comes along.
Mine just grew stronger.
You have the animal cells, and the plant cells, the plant cells
are more rigid, they have a really thick cell wall.
And then the animal cells have a really good membrane,
so they're more squishier, and if you just remember that,
Hey, Claudia, sorry.
Can you help me with that?
- There you go. - Thank you.
And thank you, Lucy.
Thanks, Claudia.
So, a little birdie told me that, Mr. Dotnick
brought in pie yesterday?
Yeah, that was because yesterday
was March 14th, you know.
Pi, 3.14.
Uh-huh, well, March 15th is now Donut Day
because I'm a big zero.
Lame.
- Hi, Claudia. - Hey, Quentin.
Okay, my lovable zombies, I have a very special
surprise for you.
We have a guest speaker today, he should be here...
Oh, there he is right now.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Nelson,
and he's here to talk to us about nutrition.
Okay, ooh, firm grip.
Whenever you're ready.
My name,
is Nelson Ovadan.
I'm certified NCSF, NASM, and NSCA.
And I'm here today to talk to you about having a healthy diet.
This, was me just around your age in my godforsaken excuse
for a body, weighing in at over 400 pounds.
I was a few sausage pizzas away, from ending up in a body bag.
Or worse, being stuck in a wheelchair.
Having lost my limbs to type 2 diabetic shock.
Are you're scared straight, yet?
Being forced upon a caretaker, like a cow at the farm.
Meera?
Meera, are you okay?
I freaked out.
I just had to get out of there.
Take it easy.
Is this something that's been going on for a while?
No.
Well...
I guess.
Sort of.
It's mostly nothing,
seeing as I've skipped lunch every day this week.
I mean, I am completely overwhelmed.
They, they keep telling us how to be, but
but every version is different, and you have to make it seem
like you're not even trying, you know?
I...
finally achieve a thigh gap.
Then, our soccer coach tells me the team is depending on me,
so I get strong again, but then I'm overflowing my
skinny jeans, it's like I can't keep up.
And...
and I mean, if I get anything less than an A minus,
I won't get into a great college and then I won't get a
great job to set me up for my great career and then there's
my parents, they moved here from India, you know, and there's
a certain way I'm supposed to be.
I've gotta make them proud their way but,
but it's not the same as this way, and I just
feel like I'm getting whiplash, and, and the worst part about
it all is that I'm fucking starving.
You've got a lot going on.
I mean, we all do.
I'm here for you.
Whatever you need.
Ah, you're so... perfect, all the time.
How are your feet still on the ground?
I just ask what he would do.
Jesus?
My hero, Steve Jobs.
Oh.
Yeah, I've heard that about you.
What used to feel like a far-off destiny was now
just around the corner.
It was time to be proactive about my future.
Steve Jobs didn't go to Stanford,
but it embodied everything he stood for.
Shoot.
Come on, Claudia.
Visualize.
And innovate.
Ugh!
What did that thing ever do to you?
What are you working on?
My coding homework.
Oh.
You're exhausted.
Why are you working yourself to death over this class?
It's a special upperclassmen elective.
You're only in ninth grade, why don't you just drop it?
I'm getting a leg up for Stanford.
Not all incoming college freshmen have the chance
to take computer science in high school.
Well, what if you switched to advanced literature
or creative writing?
It's just a few late nights.
Well, don't go crazy
for something that makes you so unhappy.
Life is short.
Mom, I don't have time to get into a whole
cancer talk right now, okay?
I have too much to do.
Your hero wasn't an engineer, you know.
He was the creative.
I can handle it.
Has your school talked to you guys at all about that
teenager that killed themselves by the train tracks?
It wasn't an Oaks student.
No, but they went to a high school down the street.
These things can be contagious.
I just want to make sure Oaks is talking to you and not
brushing it under the rug. - Mom.
I'm sorry, but I'm really busy right now.
Well, do you want me to look? I pick up things pretty easily.
I need to learn how to do this on my own.
Hmm.
I used to be a pretty good fucking engineer, you know.
Before I married your dad and had a kid,
but, everyone seems to have forgotten about that.
Her first memory was watching the Apollo 17
launch on TV when she was 4 years old.
Like the fire beneath the rocket,
it ignited something in her.
It was in an environmental biology class
where she met my dad.
She went to college to study aerospace engineering,
the sole female student in her department.
She, was the trailblazer I kept telling myself I was.
- Every single year, we go- - Somewhere along
the way, she figured out that the thing that she and my dad
bonded over when they were young was what drove them apart.
...into Pebble Beach as a group, and I did it one time.
She came to resent him for the dreams
she surrendered even though she had done so willingly.
We have the money, doesn't mean that we should
burn it on toys.
I'm not burning it, it's not burning it.
These are not toys. - I don't know what else to do.
We used to be each other's biggest heroes, we used
to be each other's biggest cheerleaders.
Yeah. I'm trying to tell you that I'm hurt!
That's just what I wanted to share with you.
I have feelings too.
I am hurt too, you don't think that I want to share things
with my partner? - Yeah, I don't think...
And he chose his career over everything else.
Just because I am working long hours,
it doesn't mean I'm cheating on you.
I am not an idiot!
- You're paranoid. - You're pathetic!
If this is your way of trying to get my attention,
it's ridiculous.
The only way you know how to be close to someone,
is to yell at them.
Then came the cancer.
When she heard the words, cancer free,
she believed she had won.
Mom and I had lived together, just the two of us, for 8 years.
We'd grown dependent on one another.
Oh I see someone finally decided to come home.
It's not like I wasn't waiting for half an hour after school
and finally had to call Lucy to give me a ride.
What's the point of a cell phone if you never use it?
I mean, really, I called you five times.
You know, these magic little things in our pockets
have multiple methods of communication.
A simple text wouldn't have sufficed.
Mom?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I left you at school.
I am just a human being.
I am trying to be strong.
You are strong, you're a badass.
Stop it, Claudia!
I don't need you to cheer me up right now.
I'm sorry.
It came back.
But I just...
I just needed a minute to myself.
- Mom. - And I don't...
I don't want to talk about it yet.
I don't want to be convinced, I don't want to pretend to be
a superhero.
I don't...
It was okay that Mom was afraid.
I would be strong enough for the both of us.
Can I ask you something about the itinerary?
Yeah, what you got?
Okay.
So, right here on day 2, there's an hour that's missing,
and then again on days 4 and 5.
That's not missing, that's free time.
Free time?
Yeah, you can, you can go shopping or,
I don't know, have some gelato.
If you really want to see the city the way it's meant to
be seen though, you'll take a bike ride.
I have a few ideas about what we
could schedule in there instead.
- Oh. - In fact,
I have some other ideas for days 1 and 3 in Rome as well
as day 6 in Genoa.
I don't know who made this thing, but
there are some serious- - I did.
Sorry.
There are some serious oversights.
It's not taking into account temporary exhibitions
or efficient transportation routes.
In fact, I did some mapping.
And if we switch these two things here, we could
shave off half an hour of bus time, which we can then tack
onto an architecture tour in the afternoon.
I'm sorry, I stopped listening.
These buttons are so hard to get in.
Look, Claudia, why don't you just,
you know, sit back and relax?
I planned this whole thing so that you wouldn't have
to worry about it, you're kind of hurting my feelings, so
if you could just take in the sights, I'd be appreciative.
But you didn't plan enough.
I can help you rework the entire schedule if you want.
That sounds terrible.
Look, Claudia, I love this about you, okay?
You're super serious about school,
you're structured with your homework and your studies.
But this trip, the point of this trip is spontaneity, okay,
creativity, I don't know, some adventure, right?
The whole reason that we planned this trip is so that we
could celebrate the fact that you are only young once.
I also only go on my high school trip to Italy once.
I've got to make it count.
Okay, just try to have fun, all right?
You sure you don't want this?
No, and where did you get so many post-its?
Attention passengers of Flight 8735,
we are now ready for boarding.
We'll begin with our pre-board. - All right, I'm gonna round
up the troops.
Come on, guys, let's go.
I bet they saw Alcatraz and Fisherman's Wharf,
and now they're going to tell their friends and family
how amazing California is.
It's ironic, isn't it?
They see a little piece of it and think it's so fascinating
and we laugh at them, but
we're going to their city to do the exact same thing.
See a few old churches and say we've been to Florence.
Florence has some of the best museums in the world.
I doubt that's where local Italian teenagers go.
I wonder how different their daily lives
really are from ours.
Maybe I'll go to college in Italy.
Really live there instead of being some dumb tourist.
That'd never work, we couldn't go to Italy for college.
Maybe you couldn't, I'm talking about myself.
We can just do study abroad in Italy while we're at Stanford.
Stanford?
Like we promised.
Oh my God, I can't believe you remember that.
We talked about that when we were what, like, 11?
Remember, I live by it.
Claudia, I can't go to Stanford.
You better not be screwing with me right now.
Oh, you're serious, aren't you?
You think our future's a joke?
♪ It's the way that you walk in the room ♪
♪ Your heart is a beacon
♪ Don't need a reason to love you, it's easy to do ♪
♪ I'm lost in your smile, it's been a while ♪
♪ Who knows what time is gonna do ♪
♪ All I know is a simple truth ♪
♪ I like watching the days go by with you ♪
♪ The sunrise, found me with you ♪
♪ The light hit the window, outlined your shadow ♪
♪ A picture, the way that you move ♪
♪ All of my places now left with a trace of you ♪
♪ Who knows what time is gonna do ♪
♪ All I know is a simple truth ♪
♪ I like watching the days go by with you ♪
♪ Who knows what time is gonna do ♪
♪ All I know is a simple truth ♪
♪ I like watching the days go by ♪
♪ I like watching the days go by with you ♪
Hey, did we see Venus of Urbino
before Michelangelo's David today?
Not again.
Come on, we're going out.
I can't go out.
You can't not go out, it's the last night.
The others are waiting in the lobby in 15.
It's against the rules.
The legal age to get into bars here is like 16.
It's against the school rules, Luce.
Look, if you didn't want to experience nightlife in Italy,
you could have picked the Galapagos Biodiversity Trip.
I didn't travel 6,000 miles to get wasted and make
an ass out of myself, I could do that at home.
Yeah, like you've ever done that, like, even once.
You know what, you can squander your mornings here,
sleeping in and hiding your hangover from the teachers,
I'm joining the 7 a.m. walking tour tomorrow.
Oh my God, Claudia, another one?
You're as boring and repetitive
as your stupid fucking guidebooks.
Bitch.
Lucy was right.
I did need to go out, but not to go clubbing.
To connect with the genius of Florence.
To connect with Jobs.
Claudia, what a pleasant surprise.
Where you heading on this beautiful evening in Firenze?
To be honest, I don't actually know.
I think that's the first time I've ever heard you say that.
Me too.
Where'd you ride?
Oh, I did a 10-mile loop around the entire city.
That's productive,
getting to see what you want while getting some exercise.
Yeah, I mean, killing two birds and all that,
but that's, that's not why I do it.
I just think the best way to explore a new place,
is on two wheels, always been that way, I don't know why.
It just quiets all the noise, in here.
You should try it sometime.
I really should go, I don't want to bother you.
You seem a little more preoccupied than usual,
what's on your mind?
It's nothing.
I shouldn't, it's... it's rude.
Too personal.
I'm an open book.
Well...
You're so smart.
And you're kind of quirky and particular, you have all the
right ingredients, like, I'm just confused.
About?
Why on earth would you settle for teaching
high school as a career?
Oh, I'm sorry, I...
I can't believe I said that.
I'm sorry, I can't, I'm sorry.
Ooh, ingredients, huh?
Well, I didn't settle.
I chose this, you know, it might sound corny, and
you might not appreciate it at this stage in your life but,
teaching is the most rewarding thing that I could ever
think of doing.
Really? I mean, didn't you go to MIT?
Yeah, I crushed MIT.
But is that supposed to mean that I need
to get a Nobel Prize in engineering?
Yeah.
Oh, I know you're obsessed
with guys like Steve Jobs,
and I get it,
but everyone's definition of success is different.
You just seem better than that.
Whoa.
I'm not a saint, okay?
I am not a wizard,
even though that would be super cool, could you
imagine me in, like, matching robes head to toe?
I'm not special, I'm just like every other privileged kid,
thrown on the hamster wheel, you work hard,
and I made my first million before I was 30.
Well, that's what I'm talking about.
Well, I mean, I thought it would give me
a sense of accomplishment, you know?
Not because I wanted the money to buy anything
specifically, but because, I achieved the goal, I made it.
But, as soon as I did, the needle moved.
I felt trapped.
So what happened?
Well, I realized that the only time I was really happy
was when I was back in Boston in college working as a TA.
So, I got back into teaching, and I haven't looked back since.
Well, I know what I want.
I always have, I want to be Steve Jobs.
Yeah, which is impossible.
We can agree on that, I mean, it's not because
you're not smart enough or driven.
Yeah, yeah, we already have one Steve Jobs.
We don't need another, I mean, bullshit.
It's not like we got Einstein and said, you know what,
we're good, we'll stop there.
I'm not saying that you can't be the next big thing,
because, God knows you are capable, but the glory
shouldn't be the goal, because if it is, you will just keep
reaching and reaching.
I just want to learn and then dominate the way he did.
Hmm.
It's like I'm talking to a mirror, honestly.
Um, you will soon discover that life is not a means to an end.
It's... It's this.
It's just being, you know?
And for you, yeah, it sucks.
You gotta be an adolescent, smell funny and all the boys
are stupid and you don't know what you're doing,
but, be open.
The magic is integrating all of it,
not shutting the door on any of it.
Okay, Dumbledore.
Thank you?
I'm just... I'm sick of people just telling me that I'm wrong.
I know who I am, I always have.
And, look Steve Jobs had to swim against the tide too.
Yeah, he did.
But he did it his way.
I mean, we can agree that he made a lot of mistakes,
but man, he had fun doing it, and he created a lot of cool
shit along the way for one reason.
Steve Jobs is the only Steve Jobs.
He is an original.
I'm hungry.
Care to join me for a bite?
I've got more studying to do.
Good night, Mr. Shine.
Lucy?
Luce, you okay?
Oh, God.
How can you think partying's worth this?
What are you doing?
Getting ready for the tour.
The fuck?
You wanna come? We meet in the lobby in 10.
I think I shit my intestines out last night.
You were up all night helping me, you probably got
2 hours of sleep, what is with you and this schedule?
Steve Jobs spent 7 months living in an ashram in India.
I'm immersing myself in the Renaissance.
I want to absorb every last drop.
You can't fit spiritual enlightenment into jam-packed
12-hour days with note-taking like a little crack addict.
People of accomplishment don't sit back and let things
happen to them, they go out and they happen to things.
Ugh.
Leonardo da Vinci.
I'm simply searching for inspiration.
Everywhere.
Thank you, you're doing great.
Oh, oh my God, lord almighty.
- What happened? - Claudia, hey,
good morning, you okay? What's going on?
Coming out the front or the back? What's your damage?
- Damage? - What do you mean?
I got two kids in the clinic getting an IV,
I got a carpet that might have to be redone,
I got 3 soiled mattresses and five of us,
including myself, have had shots in the old derriere.
Everyone else here is a shit hydrant.
So are you telling me that you and Lucy aren't sick?
Lucy was throwing up, but I think it's just from drinking.
I was just going out to get the walking tour.
That is a bad idea.
No, I think that the best medicine
is fresh air and exercise.
Oh, you're gonna be okay.
Quentin, in the trash can, buddy.
Ooh, boy.
Mr. Shine, we can't make them stay here much longer.
Yes, I'm well aware of that, Mrs. DeWitt.
- Asshole. - Guys,
it's gonna be okay, all right?
I got good news and I got bad news.
Now, the bad news is we missed our flight, we all knew that.
Ah, but they won't let us get on the next one.
Apparently we are a threat to the other passengers.
But the good news is that I informed the school,
and your parents know, so look, just sit tight,
stay cool, and hang in there.
Hmm, oh.
I'll be back.
Oh God.
Hello?
It's okay.
Everything all right?
Well, make sure you're drinking enough fluids.
Heard you were all shooting like rockets out of
both ends over there.
Too soon, maybe?
General McChrystal just had his full
complement of new troops arrive...
You know, the system is state of the art.
It's got streaming,
full catalog of movies, you don't have to
surf cable.
Sometimes it's easier to have fewer choices.
Sure.
Can I ask you something? Why did you look so shocked
when you saw me with the other parents at the airport?
Did you seriously think that I wasn't gonna care that you were
sick in a foreign country?
Good, yeah.
Silent treatment.
Nice.
You know, my parents fought like animals when I was
growing up, there was not a single thing that went unsaid
in that house.
But they never got divorced.
And I hated them for it.
Some people take their vows seriously.
Where are you going?
Bed.
Well, can I just, hang on? I wanna keep talking.
I can feel one of your lectures coming,
and I'm not in the mood.
Just wait a minute.
Actually, you know what? I just want to go home.
This is your home, too.
It's not, actually, you left our home.
All right, well, you can't go back to your mom's right now
because we haven't gotten the results back on whatever
you all picked up over there, and she's immunocompromised.
So, I guess you're just gonna have to suffer here with me.
A man covering up his broken home with all his possessions?
I'm not gonna apologize for what I've worked for.
Of course you're not.
These, passive-aggressive remarks,
they're childish, you might want to join reality,
where if there is something that you don't like, you fix
it or you move on.
You can just bend the whole world to your will?
Oh, my God, you sound just like your mom.
Look, I grew up poor, and I hated it.
So I chose to make a career for myself.
I chose to be happy.
I choose to wake up every day like it is the best
goddamn day to be alive on the earth.
So that's your priority, the mansion over the family.
My marriage to your mom was built
on love and mutual respect.
We were partners until we weren't.
And we became enemies, and we tried to fix it,
but we... we couldn't, so we moved on.
I think it is time for you to accept reality and do
the same thing.
Fine.
Hate me for the divorce.
Judge the excesses in my life.
Be as spiteful as you want, but whether
you like it or not, I am the dad that you are stuck with.
Whatever you do or say, I'm not...
I'm not gonna stop loving you.
Well, I wish I could say the same.
Hmm.
This um...
friction...
It is temporary.
You got that?
Because I, do not fail.
We do not fail.
Not at this.
Okay, listen up.
The cadaver brought to us today was a human being.
They had a family, they were a productive member of society.
So, I think it's really important
that we take a moment to
give thanks for the opportunity that they have given us
by donating their body to science.
Everybody,
please say hello, to Jane Doe.
Here we just call her Jane.
She was a 72-year-old woman who died
of sepsis from a viral infection.
Hey, are you okay over here?
Just trying to get a better look.
It's okay to be upset.
I'm not.
Hey.
You know, it's totally normal, okay,
especially for those of us who have been exposed
to the possibility of death at a very young age.
I mean, it's really overwhelming.
No, the sterility of this place is just messing
with my eyes.
- Right - They must keep it really dry
in here to preserve Jane.
Hmm. Well you know that's not really Jane Doe, right?
Yeah, I know they're protecting her identity.
No, what I mean to say is that, that is,
it's just the body that Jane Doe inhabited.
It's not really her.
Hey, you know what I think?
I think that Jane's soul is still alive somewhere.
That's...
that's pretty sentimental hoodoo stuff
for a biology teacher in distress.
Well, not all scientists are cold and calculated.
Vulnerability is a gift.
It makes us better.
I'm gonna step outside before I do any damage to my corneas.
- I want one... - Free bites?
...of the apple slices.
Team.
Like a fair trade
Hey Mr. S.!
Hey.
You guys better bulk up.
My test is gonna melt your brains.
Bring it on.
Oh, see you after lunch.
Bye.
Good afternoon.
Please join us in the gymnasium for an emergency
mandatory school-wide assembly.
Thank you.
Thank you for being here.
It is with immeasurable grief and regret, that I share
this very tragic news with you.
Mr. Shine was biking off of campus this afternoon
during lunch period,
and...
he was involved and killed in a tragic automobile accident.
As a member of the Oaks family for the past 7 years,
Mr. Shine was more than a beloved biology teacher.
He was a trusted mentor.
His classes and,
his classes and peer group will be temporarily taken over
by Mr. Dotnick, and we will be hosting a memorial service
where students and faculty will have an opportunity to speak.
They said it was impossible.
It cannot last.
It will never work.
Where others see the past, we imagine the future.
And it is always better than before.
History is made by those who dare to see another world.
Not the world... - Shit,
you really freaked me out.
Not the world as it is...
- Never seen you this upset. - But the world is...
He was my favorite teacher.
- The world that we deserve... - I'm gonna get through this.
I'm...
gonna need to be surrounded by positivity.
Dare to ask, what if we could?
Spare me that bullshit today, please.
Somebody died, I'm allowing you to not think positively.
If we just dare to believe...
Look, I know you don't like to talk about your mom,
but, I can sort of relate to what you're going through.
Are you scared?
Steve Jobs had pancreatic cancer and they cured him.
My mom will be fine.
I'm not sure it's that simple.
The doctors cured her once, they'll do it again.
Yeah, definitely.
Maybe.
Look, it...
You don't want to get caught off guard, either.
Might be smart to consider all possibilities.
Why are you always so pessimistic?
I'm realistic.
Good evening.
Tonight, I can report to the American people
and to the world, that the United States has conducted
an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, the leader of
Al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder
of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
It was nearly 10 years ago.
Look at you. Ah!
Oh, honey.
Do you like it?
I love it.
Last week, I determined that we had enough
intelligence to take action and authorized an operation
to get Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice.
Can you believe this?
- Today, at my direction... - Hmm?
- Yeah. - ...The United States
launched a targeted... - I mean,
do you understand the gravity of what's going on?
This is a significant moment in history.
I knew we were gonna get him.
You knew we'd get Osama Bin Laden?
I wasn't holding my breath, it was just a matter of when.
He evaded capture for 10 years,
I don't think anyone thought it was a sure thing.
Senior prom, graduation, Stanford,
it was all coming up, Claudia.
Though, even I had to admit capturing Bin Laden was
icing on the cake.
♪ Come on, come on, here we go now ♪
♪ Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah
♪ Here comes a good life, here we go now ♪
To the real prom!
This is it.
Topping off the list of perfect high school accomplishments.
You really think all of high school is perfect?
I've got one more chance to get everything
I wanted from high school.
It's the last thing on the list.
I'm losing my virginity tonight, prom night.
Ooh!
No, high school boys are so selfish in bed.
I'd wait till college if I were you,
till they know what they're doing.
Maybe you're just sick of boys in general.
To college guys.
Yeah, to giving girls a shot.
Shot.
Well, I can't go to college a virgin.
Fucking classic.
Okay, looks like someone's had too much to drink.
You can pack everything you want into those neat
little boxes in your head, but you can't control me.
Well, I guess it's good you're learning your limits now, this
way you won't be one of those kids that goes too hard freshman
year, it's not good for your rep.
I never applied.
When were you planning on telling me that?
We're not married.
God, you're like a human straitjacket.
Then what was the point?
Of all the opportunities we were given, of all our hard work,
you go to a good university, that's what you do.
Half the people you look up to dropped out of college.
You sound seriously delusional.
You think if I want to be successful,
I shouldn't go to Stanford?
You're just some pawn in this giant experiment.
There's no paradise, Claudia.
I know this place isn't perfect.
I'm talking about you.
You have imperfections.
Oh, yeah, like what?
No, seriously, tell me what's so wrong with me.
You buy into all of it.
You're blind to how good you've got it.
I mean, I used to look up to you,
it turns out you're just some spoiled brat in designer clothes
who isn't smart or ambitious enough to accomplish anything.
You wouldn't do anything on your own if it weren't for me.
I'm going to change the world while you float by aimlessly
on someone else's credit card.
You say you're destined for greatness,
you don't even know who you are.
- What are you talking about? - You're some fake
fucking robot who's scared shitless all the time.
And I'm done throwing you a line.
I was the one with the plan,
the focus, the future.
I refused to give up.
Innovate.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Let's get out of here.
Come on.
Look at you.
You looked really pretty tonight.
Thanks.
Congratulations on getting into Carnegie Mellon.
Thanks.
Way to go on Stanford.
Wow.
As long as I've known you, you haven't stopped talking
about wanting to get in there.
You actually made your dream come true.
Not a dream, it was a plan.
Right.
Hey, we'll both be studying engineering.
That's fun.
What are you talking about?
Carnegie Mellon has a great engineering program.
I'm sure you'll do really well there.
Oh, I'm... actually done with all that.
Yeah, I'm gonna major in philosophy.
But numbers and coding always come easily to you.
You were always on the advanced track.
I had to work my ass off just to keep up.
So?
So you have the potential to become the next Zuckerberg
and you're squandering it.
You even sort of look like him.
Who gives a fuck? What?
I'm not defined by that and I don't want to be.
This is my one life, I want to do something that I enjoy.
Do you even like coding?
Nobody actually likes coding.
Yes, many actually do.
The technology we've grown up with,
it's serving humanity, I wanna do that, to build that.
It does.
Sometimes, sure.
But, okay, remember in the 1950s,
tobacco companies paid doctors to tell people that
smoking was good for them.
We are the new guinea pig generation,
and trust me, this shit is toxic.
Wow, jaded much?
I just can't wait to get out of here.
Don't say that.
I've liked you for a long time.
I thought you were kind and smart and funny.
But you already knew that.
Whoa, whoa, what are you doing?
Don't you want to do it?
Not like this.
Hold on, slow down.
Can you just put it in already?
Why are you rushing this all of a sudden?
Why aren't you?
Look, you've waited forever to make a move, I'm taking charge.
Taking charge of what?
Does this, does this mean anything to you?
Of course it does.
It's my first time, I'll always remember it.
Claudia, I love you.
Do you even like me?
I went to prom with you.
Now I'm begging you to fuck me.
What else do you need?
Let's cap off senior year the way we're supposed to.
Stop.
I was wrong to think that you and this place
weren't one and the same.
Just another Silicon Valley knockoff.
- Quentin. - You can't treat
me like just another thing to check off your to-do list.
Shit!
Goddamn.
Honey, I waited up for you.
How was it?
Fan-fucking-tastic.
Okay, talk to me.
Hey.
Is this what failing feels like?
It's horrible.
What did you fail at?
Had it all mapped out.
Perfect prom night.
Uh-huh.
I was going to have sex with him
and then we were gonna go to different schools and I'd
never have to see him again.
- Oh, boy. - But I can fix this.
Skinny dipping, that'll work, need to get him to come here.
Hey, come on, come on, let's slow down, okay?
Okay, okay, come on, let it go, it's over.
- Give it to me, give it to me. - Let it go, it's over.
It's over.
Honey, you need to stop with this pressure.
I had a plan.
We plan, God laughs.
Do I look amused?
Hey, things happen when they're supposed to happen.
You have to learn to let go.
That spiritual crap is for people that don't have
the willpower to go out and make things happen.
Hey, don't take a shot at me!
Tonight was really important.
You can't just bend the entire world to your will,
especially something like this.
Relationships are intimate.
They should have real meaning.
Mom, I didn't want to marry him,
I just needed a nice guy to, pop my cherry
and get it over with.
Wow.
Not everything has to be so sentimental.
Well, some things should have sentiment.
Hey.
You know how I went to that city council meeting tonight?
Yeah, why'd you go to that?
Well, Apple announced they were building their new
headquarters and they wanted to talk about its
impact on the community.
The building they designed looks like a giant spaceship,
but guess who showed up to make the presentation?
No.
- Yeah. - He was there?
- Yeah. - You knew
this and you didn't tell me? - No, I didn't know.
We all thought it was gonna be Apple execs.
We were shocked when he walked through the front door.
Claudia!
How could this happen?
He's the single most important person in my life.
Well, that's lovely to hear as your mother.
I love you and Dad, but...
you've got to understand what he's done for us,
for the world.
- What? - I need to be him!
Why can't you just be you?
I'm not good enough.
One day we'll look back on this and laugh.
Do you think I could still meet him one day?
You're gonna have a lot of chances to meet him.
He's a very young man.
Hey.
It's the graduate.
Looking for you.
Ready for all this?
I've wanted to go to Stanford my entire life.
Yeah, just um...
Don't go into college with some preconceived
notion of what you
think you should be doing.
You know what I'm saying?
Just...
I want you to be happy.
I'm living the dream.
Yeah.
Okay.
At long last, Mecca.
Epic, failure.
My very first computer science lecture
may as well have been taught underwater.
I told myself, if I just worked harder than anyone else,
I could survive.
But that was a lie.
The truth?
I hated computer science.
I even took a goddamn calligraphy class
just like the one Steve Jobs took.
I was horrible at it.
No.
Oh my God.
No, no, no, no, no.
Fucking iPhone!
When one is buried, are they not truly in the
presence of possibility?
Wasn't it Emerson who wrote, It is not the length of life,
but the depth of life.
He who is not every day conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
In this depth,
one is evergreen like a seed.
Indeed, I am a future flower.
Hey.
I've never seen you here before.
I'm a freshman.
Oh, no, I meant at our creative writing group.
Oh, I just stumbled in, it was an accident.
Well, I mean, if you believe in accidents.
Is it cool if I sit?
Yeah, sure.
So...
what's your story?
I don't really have one.
Well, I mean, we all do.
Why don't you read me something?
Like what?
Anything.
Oh, I'm not a writer.
Then what are you studying?
I don't know.
I thought I did,
but,
now everything's changed.
Can't believe Steve Jobs died.
He did?
Are you kidding me?
Have you not seen the news?
No, I...
I don't...
I don't believe in cell phones.
Fantastic.
Bet you think you're too good for a laptop, too.
What do you write your stories with a quill and parchment?
Oh.
Okay.
Steve Jobs.
The King of Silicon Valley.
He was way more than that.
Really?
You want to know what I think?
I think,
that his whole act, changing the world for the better,
not caring about the money, it's all bullshit.
I mean,
he was a complete genius.
Most cult leaders are.
So, you're so convinced that you need these
things to transcend your life.
It's almost impossible to live without his little
inventions because every 30 seconds your brain craves the
dopamine hit it gets from that little flash of light.
And if that wasn't enough, you feed off likes, comments, posts,
tags, like a bunch of little validation addicts.
You don't understand.
I grew up in the valley, he was everything.
My... my whole world.
Well, what was it like growing up in his shadow?
I finally realized it wasn't Steve Jobs I was obsessed with.
It was his ability to envision something out in the ether
beyond our wildest dreams.
And, to create one thing after another,
out of nothing and share it fearlessly with the world.
I mean, isn't that what we're all here to do?
To contribute,
be brave,
and try to connect to this very moment.
Our creations can take infinite forms.
Thoughts.
Relationships.
Hopes and dreams.
Music.
Babies.
Memories.
People migrate to Silicon Valley because they believe that
they can change the world.
There's something unmistakable in the air.
A buzz, a belief.
A floating mist of optimistic spirit.
And a desperate tangible fear of failure.
Throughout history, we've learned repeatedly that
people who blindly follow their leaders,
folks who take scripture too literally,
are the dangerous ones.
That's where I went off course.
It's not Silicon Valley that's the problem.
It's what I did with it that made it so perverse.
Silicon Valley only looks to the future.
So here I am, turning back.
I no longer wish to become Steve Jobs,
but to become, me.
So here it is.
This is mine.
And it's an original.
Any questions?
♪ Was lost inside of my head ♪
♪ All my dreams were a means to winning ♪
♪ Got too close to the edge
♪ Always eager to know what was next ♪
♪ Girl, open your eyes up
♪ Lose your grip and swallow the sun ♪
♪ Take
♪ Take a breath in
♪ Let the pieces fall where they might ♪
♪ And learn to let go
♪ Planned out every move
♪ But I was just avoiding the truth ♪
♪ Sometimes we all got to lose ♪
♪ Not everything's shiny and new ♪
♪ Girl, open your eyes up
♪ Lose your grip and swallow the sun ♪
♪ Take
♪ Take a breath in
♪ Let the pieces fall where they might ♪
♪ And learn to let go
♪ Let go
♪ Ooh
♪ Ahh
♪ I can't keep on treading water ♪
♪ 'Cause I know I'm slipping under ♪
♪ Spin in circles going nowhere ♪
♪ So might as well surrender
♪ Now that I'm not in the way
♪ Girl, open your eyes up
♪ Lose your grip and swallow the sun ♪
♪ Take
♪ Take a breath in
♪ Let the pieces fall where they might ♪
♪ Oh, open your eyes up
♪ Lose your grip and swallow the sun ♪
♪ Take
♪ Take a breath in
♪ Let the pieces fall where they might ♪
♪ And learn to let go