Quite Lovely

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2015)

The Theory of Everything is a movie about the much talked about Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist and Author, Stephen Hawking. The movie only briefly touches on the science that's made him what he is today. Instead, concentrating, on his former wife Jane Hawking's book: Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen.
The movie opens at a party, where Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), meets Jane (Felicity Jones), who's a friend of his sister They strike up a conversation and find a real connection, so much so that Jane, scribbles down her number on a sheet of paper and hands it to Hawking before leaving. His relationship with Jane blossoms and they soon begin to spend more and more time together. However, he soon begins to find that simple tasks are becoming difficult and following an accident, tests confirm that he has motor neurone disease. He subsequently shuts himself away, as the condition begins to take hold and spends most of his time alone, that is until Jane begins to talk him round.
The Theory of Everything is a beautiful peace of movie making, with Redmayne's performance quite outstanding. You see Hawking the loving Father, caring Husband and a man who likes to make people laugh. A quite memorable movie that I am so pleased to have seen as it has made me see Stephen Hawking in a completely different light.