A brilliant film on a brilliant man that was made even better by Eddie Redmayne's stunning performance

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2016)

It is a brilliant film, as good as a biopic can be in all honesty. It is sad in many ways, to the extent in fact that throughout the whole length of the film I sat with a heavy heart and with a lump in my throat, but at the same time it allows us to celebrate the career and the achievements of a man highly capable and most determined to fight himself more than anything/anyone else. The scene where he breaks down in tears when his wife suggests of herself finally wanting to part from him is just..... If I see that again it could potentially lead me to depression. I would need days to get over it.
A special mention for Eddie Redmayne. For a moment I had myself asking whether this is the Professor himself acting in the film! Equally, I would like to mention the film-makers for making his physical appearance look so similar.
I can relate to a thousand things from the film and his life, yet on the other hand a lot of the things not because I have yet lived a third of his life. Most memorable one for me keeping in mind my personal experiences, has to be the bit about tracheotomy and the loss of speech caused by it. I could have had to face exactly the same but since thankfully mine was a less severe case I went against the advice of the doctors and was rewarded for my hard work and determination by regaining the ability to breathe independently (except whilst asleep) within weeks by training so hard. So the moment it was mentioned and alongside it him losing speech, it hit me hard, as it did to elder sister who watched the film with me. I wasn't willing on her to join me knowing how for an impact it could have on her, but I couldn't ask her to leave the room, the result of which is that she keeps mentioning the film again and again and is finding it difficult to forget it.
It is a overall a very sensitive topic to comment on much, so I would refrain from doing that, but there perhaps a few things that could have been done or managed differently in order for him to avoid a lot of troubles and the heartaches that he had to bear, but again we have to keep in mind that the events discussed are from many, many years ago and people back then thought differently about things as we might do in this age. Also, this is hindsight for you, and it is a lot easier to analyse others' lives than to be in someone else's place.
Again, a brilliant film from every angle. I was recommended this by a friend in an email.