MoViews: The Theory of Everything; Rating: PG-13 Genres: Drama Language: English
Overall BAGEO Rating:
E (Excellent)
Direction: James Marsh; Screenplay:
Anthony McCarten.; Cinematography: Benoit Delhomme
Story: Jane
Hawking; based on her book ‘Travelling to Infinity; My life with Stephen”.
Key Actors: Eddie Redmayne (Stephen Hawking), Felicity
Jones (Jane Hawking), Charlie Cox (Jonathan Jones)
Summary: This movie has been made based on the book “
Travelling to Infinity: My life with
Stephen” by Jane Hawking. An excellent movie with realistic portraying of the
life of the celebrated scientist Stephen Hawking who is handicapped due to Lou
Gehrig’s disease also known as motor
neutron disease. Due to this disease,
he starts loosing control of his muscles and thereby the movements of most of
his body parts. The movie initially
shows him as a young boy with some bodily defect, in the way he looks and talk
and the movie very gradually slowly takes the viewer through the different
stages of his disease without putting us
into major shocks. Along with that
however, it also moves the story along very nicely with his education, love
with Jane and the world recognizing him as an amazing scientist. A wonderful movie to watch, especially for
teen kids to learn about this amazing
scientist and understand how inspite of
his unthinkable disease and handicap, he
has been able to achieve his passion and ambition. Towards the end of the movie, he is
shown addressing an audience where he says his famous quote “There should be no boundaries to human
endeavor” and “Where there is life, there is hope”!
Acting: Exceptional acting as Stephen Hawking by
Eddie Redmayne. It seems Eddie met with
the actual Stephen Hawking and observed his walk, talk, actions etc. and has
been very successful in portraying it.
Felicity Jones also has done a wonderful acting as Jane Hawking and
going through the emotional ups and downs.
Screenplay & Direction: The movie
well crafted by James Marsh. It is
smooth flowing with no surprises nor any visible goof ups, though IMDB has listed some interesting
trivia that shows some mismatches.
However for a normal movie viewer,
none of those are conspicuous.
Other interesting points: Looks like
the movie has been filmed in the actual Oxford and Cambridge campuses ( I may
be wrong) which shows how the life is for kids. Stephen’s parents are shown a
few times in the movie, but from a story point of view, they do not seem to be
very involved with his life, even after he is severely handicapped due to the
disease. Stephen starts as an atheist at
the start and does not go to church saying he has a slight problem with the
whole celestial dictator premise. As a
scientist, he even discards presence of GOD and proclaims that the universe has
no beginning. However towards the end,
he has not been able to find one single formula for the existence of
universe and that I felt he indirectly agrees to the principle of GOD in the
universe.
Overall: A must watch movie for teens
and above. BAGEO Rating: E.
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