This movie show a brief history of Stephen Hawking's time and it was pretty good. Where, there is life, there is hope.

Rating: 8/10 (8 February 2015)

2014 was a big year for ALS awareness. You got videos of the ice bucket challenge that went viral, and then you got movies like this, becoming a huge success. The Theory of Everything really showcase how ALS: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis AKA Lou Gehrig's disease really damage the body. It doesn't shy away. While the movie is depressing in that limelight. It's also show how uplifting and inspiring people are, when they face that problem. No matter how grave the diagnosis that the main character receives, he doesn't let it get in the way of what he wants to do with his life and work, thanks in large part to his support system. Directed by James Marsh, and adapted by Anthony McCarten. The movie is based on Stephen Hawking's ex-wife, Jane Wilde's second memoir, 'Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen', which focuses on the more positive sides of their relationship than the less flattering memoir, 'Music to Move the Stars'. That memoir provided part of the basis for the 2004 BBC TV movie Hawking starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The filmmakers behind The Theory of Everything felt best if they portray Hawking, in a better light. This might be good for the film, as it doesn't show, much of Hawking's dark side, but it can also be a fault, because it makes him seem least than human, and more saint-like. Anyways, the movie tells the story of Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his relationship with his wife, Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) over the years. The movie moves in very good pace. It opens up during their time studying at Cambridge in the 1960s, move to the struggle that Stephen Hawking and Jane Wilde had to deal with ALS, and finally climax, with Stephen Hawking's biggest success in physics, when he release his book, 'A Brief History of Time' in the early 1990s. The first half is robotic, force, slow and cliché, but it's the second half that really makes the film, very interesting. It was very thought-provoking and one of the few movies that had a good objective love triangle. While, the movie plot is predictable, there were some scene that really did shock me that I didn't know, about the man. The acting from both Eddie Redmayne as Hawkings and his co-star, Felicity Jones as his wife were very good. In the wrong hands and the wrong actors, it could easily gone sour, with a cartoony approach to Hawking and unlikeable presence for his wife, Jane. Redmayne really got Hawking's mannerism down. It was very believable that he would transformation to what Hawking is today. Even, the real life Stephen Hawking love Redmayne's performance in this biopic based on his life. Like Hawking, Jane Wilde was amazed to see that Jones had incorporated her mannerisms and speech patterns into her performance. She was very impressed. The movie made the audience feel sympathy to what Jane was going through and it's sad, how apart, they became, over the years. The movie deals with rough topics from everything from marital discord, infidelity, and near-death experiences. The movie kinda digs into Hawking's studies, but it never truly goes into a huge detail discussion about it. I hardly remember anything say about black holes in this film. I believe the movie couldn't had work if they did. It's better off, for a documentary to tackle that subject, than a film like this. It would turn most people off, from the main story. The movie kinda downplays Hawking's strong atheist beliefs. The topic of God is only mention, a few time throughout the film, so that they can attract, both religionist and non-religion viewers. It kinda makes sense. Also, at the time, in which the settling of the film is set, Hawking still believe that the universe is governed by the laws of science, created by a God, but God does not intervene to break the laws, but as recent as 2011, he restate himself, that he believe no God, because there was no time before the big bang, and with no time, there cannot be a God. One of the best things about the film, is the music that covers it. The movie is very accuracy to Stephen Hawking's life, with only a few minor changes to his life. A good example is like how he found out that he was diagnosed with ALS. The real Stephen Hawking feel the movie is accurate enough to his life. The film still is met with mostly positive reviews and it will indeed go on to win a few awards in film festivals. Overall: An excellent film with an astonishingly good transformative lead performance. A must-watch.