Brilliant man and the marvelous woman behind him yields Brilliant Film

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 2014)

The Theory of Everything is heartbreaking and inspiring story of Stephen Hawking told through his wife Jane's relationship with the intellectual.
The Theory of Everything is the film adaptation of the biographical memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen.
The story of the life of Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous modern physicists told from his youth to adulthood through his discovery of love and relationship with Jane Wilde.
To portray someone who is still living is a daunting and unnerving task. Eddie Redmayne takes on the insurmountable effort and immerses himself into the person both physically and emotionally transforming himself into the role of the real life world-renowned Stephen Hawking. Felicity Jones perhaps has the more difficult responsibility of portraying Jane Wilde, the famed theoretical physicist's paramour, wife and eventual caretaker. Jane Wilde, later Jane Wilde-Hawking, is a far less well known persona. Yet, Jones relies upon pure assured confidence in her character and is able to relay a compelling and engaging complementary counter-figure to audiences.
Together Jones and Redmayne help to tell the dramatic true love story of Hawking and Wilde in The Theory of Everything. The beauty and magic of the film and story is primarily told when focusing on Hawking in the beginning, prior to the onset of symptoms from the neurodegenerative disease while at Cambridge. It is here that director James Marsh makes for some absolutely breathtakingly beautiful shots.
Once the symptoms of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also known as Lou Gehrig's disease advances The Theory of Everything slowly changes focus through the eyes of Jane. Marsh's direction of this subtle and slow transition is marvelous with mildly distorted fishbowl effects through the point of view of Hawking. Marsh expertly captures the overwhelmingly frustrating, emotional, and detaching impact of the disease silently and effectively.
Unfortunately as it becomes increasingly more difficult to understand Hawking as the disease progresses it also becomes harder to stay engaged with the film. And the story loses steam through the second act of The Theory of Everything.
The Theory of Everything is an honest and un-exaggerated look at the real story of a man who has transformed how the world looks at science and the universe. Though as it can be said, behind every great man is a great woman, and audiences become privy to the seemingly untold story of the woman behind the man.
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