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Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2014)

Dear, Mr. DeSanto, Javier Bardem never performed in "My Left Foot", it was another English actor: Daniel Day-Lewis who made that film. This clarified lets go to: "The Theory of Everything".
Well done for having based the main script in the book written by Jane Hawking. I cannot imagine a whole movie where us -the public- would have to strive trying to understand Dr. Hawking's Cosmologyc theories spoken in his, then, poor English skills, doe to the disintegration of his muscles.
Therefore as it is, is pure perfection, for us to comprehend the heartbreaking situation that everyone -including himself- around him went through. And I speak with the validation of my own experience, being an artist and now, invalid.
As for the movie by itself... there are no words to describe how marvellously well accomplished it is, from directing, to acting. No doubt next Oscar will go to Eddie Redmayne -bravo Eddie, for again I find myself in him- because he has captured the intensity of the emotional, the physical and the moral state of a soul that being brilliant, never-the-less, has become opaque.
There is a series made by the BBC and acted by Dr. Hawking on his theories, if anyone is interested on this side of his achievements.
Blessings!