The Theory of Everything is British romantic and emotional film directed by James Marsh. Brand-new, Oscar-winning movie tells about one of the world’s famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and his first wife Jane. The story is based on the non-fiction book ”Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” authored by Stephen’s wife Jane Wild.
In the beginning of the movie young chemist named Stephen Hawking meets attractive young humanist girl called Jane in the Cambridge university in the 1960’s. Pair falls in love and starts to date. To their annoyance Stephen is told that he is suffering rare motorneuron disease. He is given two years to live. Stephen and Jane decide to get married and fight together against the disease. During the movie, Stephen loses his way to walk and he soon becomes dependent on a wheelchair. Little by little Stephen’s ability to talk becomes harder and family’s life is getting more complicated.
Romantic love story turns gradually to the struggle against the disease. The roles of science and Hawking’s career are quite small in the film and movie is mainly a story of challenging relationship and love between two person.
I think film was extremely beautiful. It was real and supremely touching drama movie, which makes viewer cry. Sometimes film was probably too emotional but mostly I liked it. To my surprise, there was also humour in the movie. Film proved that Stephen Hawking is pretty funny and kind person. All parts in the film worked well. Melodic-classic piano music composed by Johann Johansson made strong and expressive feeling. In my opinion music was typical drama-movie music but it fit to the film. Filming worked also. It described the time well. The Theory of Everything was great, workable and quality entirety. There were some flaws in plot and screenplay. If I had written the movie, I would have done some scenes differently. For example I think Stephen and Jane fell in love too fast. However movie was really good, one of the best drama film I’ve ever seen.
Eddie Redmay as a Stephen Hawking made absolute greatest performance in his career. He was definitely worth of his Oscar ( Academy Award for Best Actor 2014). Redmay’s interpretation as Stephen Hawking was phenomenal. Role was probably challenging only because it’s physical. It’s not easy to act crippled convincingly and believable. But Redmay succeeded. All his facial expressions and signs were real. He was damn good!
You shouldn’t forget Felicity Jones. Jones’ role as Jane Wilde was assertive too. She still stayed in the shadow of Redmay.
Then something about theme and message of the film. Well, this movie proved that there is always hope. Stephen was given two years to live. He is still alive. He lost his way to talk, but still created one of the most remarkable theory in chemistry. He could have given up but he fighted. And he didn’t have to fight alone. So the film also showed how powerful force love is. Jane departed of her dreams and career because of Stephen’s desease. Pair had a lot of problems but they still loved each other.
I recommend to watch this movie. If you aren’t interested otherwise, watch the movie at least because of Eddie Redmay. He is so good-looking.
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