Sunday, July 5, 2015

Theory of Everything

As a biopic, this is fabulous. Redmayne does an outstanding job portraying Stephen Hawking and the battle he engages between a deteriorating body and hyperactive mind. In particular, he captures the cheeky humor of Hawking and is able to display this with a gleam in the eye or a slightly raised eyebrow. Definitely Oscar worthy. The film follows Hawking from PhD candidate days at Cambridge, through his work in cosmology and with black holes. But the science is really background, with the story being Hawking, his wife Jane, and the hired help. It is the story of the tremendous effort and energy required to sustain life, and a demonstration of how much most of us take this effort and energy for granted. It is a love story, and a story about the limits of love. Again, fabulous.
5 stars (out of 5)

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