LOOK WHAT WE MADE

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2018)

This film is a brief history of Stephen W. Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), arguably the smartest man of our time or ever. To the Homer Simpson crowd he is known as "the wheel chair guy." The film is not only biographical, but gives hope to people with ALS. In circa 1963 Hawking was given two years to live. Apparently God saw fit to give him more time to prove he doesn't exist. You get 25 minutes of Hawking before he is diagnosed.
It is also a love story and includes a brief history of his wife Jane (Felicity Jones) who struggled and fell.
Hawking is an iconic pop cultural figure too as his book took complex ideas and made them available for the masses. If you watched the film "God's NOT Dead" it is Hawking who they parse in an attempt to prove God's existence, i.e. you must prove Hawking wrong first to prove God exists. He is that powerful of a figure.
The film omits quite a bit of his life and work, but hits the highlights in an abbreviated and sometimes low budget fashion. For instance we see him enter the chambers to be awarded and then afterwards. We don't see the act itself. Steven also likes to frequent certain type of California adult entertainment establishments. This is reduced to him looking at a Penthouse magazine. The famous runaway wheel chair accident is omitted.
If I had one criticism of the film it is the ending when they run the film, i.e. time backwards as it shows the producers have no idea what Hawking really said about reversing time. It couldn't be like that due to the laws of entropy. The smashed glass could not put itself back together. Hawking specifically states this in his book.
A movie for science buffs and non-science folk alike.
No f-bombs. One Damn. Shows near nudity from an open Penthouse. Some between the lines indications of infidelity.