"While there is life, there is hope."

Rating: 9/10 (26 December 2015)

Though having just seen this movie for the first time, there's no question that Eddie Redmayne deserved the Best Actor award for his performance as renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. His transformation from a healthy young college student to victim of a debilitating motor neuron disease is no less remarkable for being truly heartbreaking. That his superior intellect developed astounding theories about the origins of the universe should be an inspiration to anyone facing obstacles in one's own life, be they minor or virtually insurmountable as seen here. Personally I would liked to have seen more in the way of Hawking's scientific method and how he came to his theories and discoveries. However even with the brief mentions alluded to in the film, I ask myself and the scientific community both - how can we ever really know anything about God and the origins of the universe? Hawking himself went through this dialectic, leaving me to ponder how Man can pretend to reduce the proof of anything to do with the origin of time and space to a single equation. Answers only leads to more questions, making a Theory of Everything a fatal conceit, though sometimes a decent movie.