The Theory of Everything Reviews

if you have seen my account lately and seen movies of real stories
lately I've been interested in movies of 2013 , 2014 and 2015
And The Theory of Everything is one of that

the story is well told but in one part I was bored
I mean the first part was good from the first hour starts to bore since the clímax starts to be more interesting

the performance I liked Especially the Eddie raymayne
even so the others are not left behind

still I did not know hawking so well although one of his phrases left me interested
that everyone is successful at something


the music also stood out to give good atmosphere


in itself the film may be better but even so it is advisable to have a good hawking story and have my approval

Final Rating 7,9

Like everyone else, of course, I heard about Stephen Hawking but I have to admit that he didn't know much about him so, only therefore, I was quite eager to check this movie and since it received some good reviews, there was a fair chance that it could turn out to be a decent watch. And, indeed, Hawking was (and still is) one of the brightest minds that we ever had and this character was quite fascinating to behold, thanks to a very strong performance by Eddie Redmayne. Unfortunately, they spend more time saying that the guy was  brilliant instead of displaying those brilliant ideas. Eventually, the tricky thing with quantum physics is that it is really damned hard to comprehend while watching this movie if you didn't have previous knowledge of the subject before watching the damned thing. In my case, I understood maybe half of what the guy was saying. Anyway, even though I wish they took more time to explore his mind, the movie was actually more about his private life, especially his marriage with his first wife and the impact the ALS disease had on their relationship. The end-result was a rather sweet love story but is it really what Stephen Hawking should be remembered for? To conclude, even though I expected more from this movie, I have to admit it, it was still a pretty good biopic and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre. 

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Dear god, was this year’s Oscar theme the year of incredibly dull films about white dudes? Granted, The Theory of Everything is one of the better films to come out of that particular genre this past year, but it’s still only merely adequate. It’s a good film about an interesting subject, and like many of the others released in the 2014 awards season, it tackles that interesting subject in as easily digestible a way as possible.

Based on the book by his ex-wife, Jane, The Theory of Everything tells of Stephen Hawking’s college education, long-suffering marriage, intellectual pursuits, and eventual celebrity. Ironically, despite being based upon her book, Jane is often cast to the side of the inner emotional turmoil going on in the story, and frequently reduced to the long-suffering wife role.

The film’s treatment of massively complicated mathematical and scientific formulas in a simplistic manner doesn’t bother me. It would be hard to gain interest if they were talked about as they truly are, so simplifying them are audience participation isn’t one of the major problems I have with the film. No, it’s the too often on-the-nose symbolism that irks me. Hawking’s obsession with spherical shapes and rotund images liter the film, like he can’t go a few minutes without noticing a swirling galaxy in his tea cup.

I suppose I should be thankful that a biopic is trying valiantly to even indulge in a stylistic flourish when the genre so often adheres to risk aversion as a matter of principal. But whereas similar films like The Imitation Game contort their stories into grossly misrepresentative and artless shapes, The Theory of Everything at least manages to acknowledge the complicated emotions at play, even if they do sometimes feel more fully developed from Stephen Hawking’s perspective.

Biopics are also a typical excuse for an actor to demonstrate their stuff. Think of how Charlize Theron forever shed the pretty, vapid girlfriend/wife roles she was stuck playing by going full-tilt as a serial killer in Monster, or the way that Forest Whittaker finally got some overdue recognition by smothering his innate likability with crazed despotic rule in The Last King of Scotland. Similarly, Eddie Redmayne finally gets a role that shows what he is made of as an actor. I’ve found him to be solid and dependable in other things, even if the material was beneath him like My Week with Marilyn, but he truly exhudes extraordinary depths of characterization and emotive acting in this. Frequently he can only capture the rascally spirit that still burns within the broken body with just a twinkle in his eyes. While my preference would have been for the comeback kid Michael Keaton (I have an eternal soft-spot in my heart for him as my childhood Batman and Beetlejuice), Redmayne is a worthy Best Actor winner.

Given less to do is Felicity Jones. I thought she was fabulous in Like Crazy, but she occasionally seems out of her element here. In later scenes where her character has to age, she lacks the gravitas (and age make-up) to believably play a middle-aged woman. Jones is undone by looking eternally like the fresh-faced and perky college student we first meet her as in the film. An odd choice on someone’s part, and while she’s never less-than-good, she’s also never truly soaring to the same heights as Redmayne. This might have something to do with the fact that she’s shuffled off to the sidelines for long stretches, and when she is given a chance to emote it becomes distracting to notice that she has not been aged up like her co-stars who have been aged at least somewhat.

Perhaps the biggest sin of The Theory of Everything is how it dances around so many of the topics, ripe for emotional plundering, hanging in the air. Jane’s emotional frustrations? Merely given lip-service. Extramarital affairs? Treated far too chastely. It’s a very safe, sanded-down variation of the events as widely known. It didn’t need to be. Somewhere lurking in The Theory of Everything’s lovely amber glow is a much better film about the realities of living and loving someone with an incurable illness, of falling out of love with each other, and a story that captures more complicated emotions in fullness. It’s not a bad film, it’s just the blandest one that could have been made out of these parts.

Glory to the geeks, in its most struggling character. Director Marsh and screenwriters try to blend a simplification of a theory in a biography and it just glows for some seconds...

Rarely have I seen such an extraordinary performance. Eddie Redmayne (Hawking in the film) deserves an Oscar for that. It is simply outstanding. The movie itself is worth watching. Excellent supporting actors. Decent photography and set.

I loved the trailer and wanted to see this immediately. It's interesting to see more of the side of Stephen Hawking that we don't really know. We all or most of us anyways are aware of the science involved with Stephen King, but learning about who he was as a person was really interesting. It's nice to know that through the struggles of ALS he could find great humor in life still. The acting was amazing especially from Eddie Redmayne. I think he put on an extremely Oscar worthy performance. Nice to see Harry Lloyd playing someone who isn't evil like he did in Game of Thrones. It's emotional and bittersweet. It does make you think about life and should even inspire people to do better. I think this was very amazing and well done. It is a gripping eye opener that I think everyone should see. It is so worth it.