Extremely pretentious, yet heartbreaking and beautiful

Rating: 7/10 (10 June 2017)

Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate this film, in fact I enjoyed it very much. It's a powerful and brutally honest story of the endurance of human spirit, resilience, resourcefulness and of course love. But I found it to be too pretentious for its own good. At times I found Jane Hawking's portrayal to be terribly unrealistic at best, and sometimes Stephen himself was an intolerable egghead for lack of a better phrase, acting like Sheldon Cooper from that godawful Big Bang Theory sitcom. Nonetheless, this is still a wonderfully stunning film that will definitely put your own life in perspective. And of course, factoring in the 1960's nostalgia, the British atmosphere, the beautiful soundtrack and the undeniably tear-jerking and tragically ill-fated love between a paralyzed genius and his devoted yet lonely wife, 'The Theory of Everything' is amazingly impressive. I would recommend this film to anyone, physics inclined or otherwise, because there are so much deeper themes running beneath the story's surface, from family dysfunction to society's quick misjudgments preventing talented people from making the world a better place on account of their own disabilities.