Touching and Privilege to Watch

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2015)

This is basically a love story between Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and Jane Hawking (Felicity Jones), and it is quite a love story and certainly not one you would normally expect or even hear about.
In many ways this movie is a privilege for us to see things about Stephen and Jane Hawking, but also in many ways this is difficult to watch because we do not like to see anyone struggling with a non curable disease and also to see what wife Jane, as caregiver, goes through as well. We will see that our doing the most simple of things is quite difficult and complicated for Mr. Hawking to perform. I would suggest you keep a box of Kleenex handy as you will need it at times.
Once Stephen Hawking is diagnosed to have ALS he is projected to live 2-years more. As we can see this did not happen and why he survives more than the 2-years is never explained or can be explained. Love? Divine Intervention? We needed to know his theories? Hmmmm
The main focus for Stephen Hawking is that he wants to find an equation that will explain everything in the Universe. He believes he needs to prove that TIME had a beginning.
The movie is about his marriage with science thrown in all the way through. Since we really do not know much about Stephen Hawking everything will be a surprise and I will not let the cat out of the bag. But here is what we do know: Mr. Hawking is a genius in our time and also has a great sense of humor. He has guested on The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory TV shows and some of his comments herein will also show his wit.
Eddie Redmayne who portrayed Mr. Hawking did so flawlessly to such a point we only saw Stephen Hawking, not Eddie Redmayne. What a great job. Kudos. Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking brought tremendous amounts of compassion to this story and sometimes we felt what she felt as we reached for that Kleenex box. We see many scenes between Stephen and Jane that are more than touching and are Pure Gold. Mr. Redmayne won the Oscar for Best Actor and Felicity Jones was nominated for Best Actress and it should have been awarded to her. (and not because you think she is very pretty?) The movie itself was nominated for Best Picture and it should have won for that.
In our lives we tend to pray for family and friends at times. Keep in mind that it is okay to pray for geniuses too. Even though Doctor Stephen Hawking is an avowed Atheist, I don't think he would mind. At least I hope not. (10/10)
Violence: No. Sex: No. Nudity: No Language: No.