{"id":147362,"date":"2014-11-03T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T04:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=147362"},"modified":"2014-10-16T21:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T04:55:18","slug":"the-theory-of-everything-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2014\/11\/03\/the-theory-of-everything-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theory of Everything Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus Features<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grade:\u00a0 B+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director:\u00a0 James Marsh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screenwriter:\u00a0 Anthony McCarten, book by Jane Hawking<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cast:\u00a0 Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Charlie Cox, David Thewlis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screened at:\u00a0 Universal, NYC, 10\/16\/14<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Opens:\u00a0 November 7, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, even world class scientists have private lives\u2014people they love, people they care for and who take care of them, children who like them regardless of their parents\u2019 fame.\u00a0 Was there even a Mrs. Galileo or a Mrs. Copernicus?\u00a0 Should be we interested in knowing what Mrs. Einstein was like?\u00a0 Mrs. Fermi?\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 That depends on whether the personal lives in question possess particular drama, which is surely true of the private life of Stephen Hawking, perhaps the most notable theoretical physicist in the world today, author of A Brief History of Time, which sold ten million copies.\u00a0 What is unusual about the man, making his love life the focus of James Marsh\u2019s \u201cThe Theory of Everything,\u201d is that Hawking became the love interest of a Ms. Jane Wilde when they were in attendance at the university in Cambridge, England despite Stephen\u2019s dorky appearance and awkwardness, but that\u2019s not all.\u00a0 As their relationship developed, Hawking received a diagnosis of MND, a neurological disorder similar to Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, and was given two years to live, and even then, Jane insisted on marrying him and making those two years the best of her man\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Little did she know at that time that the two years would stretch on, allowing Hawking to live not only to age 23 but to 72.\u00a0 He is still alive though almost totally paralyzed and able to communicate only through an ingenious machine.\u00a0 Jane and Stephen were to be together through twenty-five years of marriage and to produce three children (some of his parts were not paralyzed).\u00a0 \u201cThe Theory of Everything,\u201d then, is the story of their lives together, going on through the end of their marriage and his nuptials later to a nurse who is hired to teach him better ways to communicate and Jane\u2019s own marriage to the choirmaster of her church.<\/p>\n<p>The film gains its drama from the ways that Jane helps her disabled husband, her life with him forming her memoir, Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen.\u00a0 Deepening the drama is the fact that Jane Hawking (Felicity Jones) is spiritually the opposite of Stephen (Eddie Redmayne).\u00a0 She is a regular church-goer and a strong believer in God while he rejects what he calls the \u201csupernatural,\u201d though interestingly enough he is more agnostic than atheist as he does not wholly reject the idea of a creator.\u00a0 Instead, Stephen speaks of the universe as it is expanding and contracting and delivers some ideas of the black hole which Anthony McCarten\u2019s able script makes reasonably accessible for a lay audience in the theater.\u00a0 What\u2019s more Stephen\u2019s interest lies wholly within his world of mathematics and theoretical physics while Jane is involved with medieval Spanish and French and links to Stephen\u2019s interest in time by stating that she has often wanted to travel back a few centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The film appears to highlight Eddie Redmayne\u2019s chances for a best-actor Oscar or, at any rate, to hope he can have some luck with the many organizations that dish out awards for movies that open in 2014.\u00a0 Redmayne conveys the steady deterioration of the disease at first by walking with a limp, then falling flat on his stomach inside the Cambridge grounds.\u00a0 His toes point inward, his speech becomes unintelligible, his head droops and he has a disturbing smile on his wide lips.\u00a0 At first he gets by on a pair of canes, then winds up in a wheelchair and is unable to eat without help from Jane or from the nurse, Elaine Mason (Maxine Peake), a woman who is strangely attracted to Hawking and tells his wife that she should worship the ground he walks on.\u00a0 While Jane becomes increasingly wary about the growing attraction of his husband for Elaine, she is herself becoming involved with Jonathan Helyer (Charlie Cox), who conducts the church choir, and will eventually marry him as Stephen will marry Elaine.\u00a0 David Thewlis delivers a stunning rendition of Stephen\u2019s doctoral advisor, Dennis Sciama, a man who does not cut off his relationship at graduation time but sees Stephen speak before riveted audiences about his theories of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>The biopic is rendered in a conventional manner, but the drama is heightened by Johann Johansson\u2019s score and cinematographer Benoit Delhomme\u2019s color.\u00a0 As costumer, Steven Noble is said to supervise Redmayne\u2019s look with 77 changes of clothing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated PG-13.\u00a0 123 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story \u2013 B+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Acting \u2013 A-<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Technical \u2013 B<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Overall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Focus Features Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. 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