A good insight!

Rating: 8/10 (13 February 2015)

Very good account of the private life of Stephen Hawking and his first wife. The pace of the story flows well. The acting depicts the era very well with the very reserved attitude towards sex by people with this type of background. Stephen Hawking is an incredible man both physically and mentally. His concepts of Physics go way over my head. But the movie doesn't concentrate too much on the scientific side, it's more about their relationship. The make up team have done an incredible job making Eddie Redmayne look like Stephen Hawking! I do have one criticism, and that is I don't feel the movie truly portrayed the difficulty his wife had to take care of him and bring up three children at the same time. Surely, she had more help than was depicted in the movie? Having worked myself with severely physically disabled people, I know just exactly how hard the work is. His first wife deserves a lot more credit than she is given - both in the movie, and in real life.