The Theory of Everything is a marvelously well-acted love story exploring Stephen Hawking's relationship with his wife. I like how it didn't simply wallow in saccharine, Nicholas Sparks-type romance clichés. It focuses more on the genesis of Hawking's neurodegenerative disease & how that influenced the life that Jane and Stephen had together.
This is quite unlike any onscreen romantic drama I've seen because it also succeeds as a fascinating biopic of Hawking himself; it's interesting to see his work at Cambridge leading to a mini-climax with him passing his doctoral thesis in physics, and it ends essentially with Hawking as we see him today, giving a lecture soon after being fitted with his assistive wheelchair and speaking device.
I can't quite recommend the film enough, and it's a good one to take your date to.
Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones both deserve Oscar nominations.
A
No comments:
Post a Comment