You know, screenwriters study and obsess over motivations and why people do things as much as a hacker studies and obsesses over how a particular system works.

You know, screenwriters study and obsess over motivations and why people do things as much as a hacker studies and obsesses over how a particular system works. Sorkin is one of the very best in the world at what he does. Top 5 or 10, easy, and he has been in that league for well over a decade now. Perhaps the character in the film is more complex than people here are portraying him to be.