A Brilliant Film About Stephen Hawking's Personal Life

Rating: 10/10 (5 July 2015)

This film is a biopic about brilliant physicist Stephen B. Hawking.Events of his life includes his personal struggle with the motor neuron disease throughout his life;the achievement that he made in theoretical physics; and his relationship and family life with his ex-wife Jane Wilde Hawking.The Theory Of Everything was directed by James Marsh and adapted by screenwriter Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen written by Jane herself.It stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen and Jane respectively.
The movie starts with Stephen as a healthy active young man and a doctorate student at Cambridge wherein he meets fellow student Jane.Then he later was discovered to have a disease that will provide him limitations in terms of voluntary movement,control and breathing.Despite of it,he and Jane gets married to start a family life and he continues his work on physics with the study of time and universe.It focuses primarily on their relationship as well as the ups and downs that Stephen's condition had as he constantly deteriorate as the movie progresses but nevertheless continues to show the world that he is indeed one of the most brilliant minds in science despite of it.
While Science fanatics will definitely be somewhat left empty as the movie does not focus on Stephen's work,it still will be considered one interesting and brilliant film as we get to see the determination of one mind who never gave up on his mission in life despite the many challenges he faced brought about by the limitations of physical ability that was caused by his disease.Also,one will definitely empathize with the solid relationship between Stephen and Jane particularly the commitment of the latter to their marriage especially with the sacrifices she made for the former's sake.Finally,it is one film that was surely well written despite the fact that the theme on Stephen's professional life as a physicists is somewhat lacking given the attention of the film to his personal life particularly his relationship with Jane.