{"id":147973,"date":"2014-11-04T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T06:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=147973"},"modified":"2014-11-04T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T06:30:09","slug":"the-theory-of-everything-movie-review-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2014\/11\/04\/the-theory-of-everything-movie-review-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theory of Everything Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>The Theory of Everything<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed for <i>Shockya<\/i> by Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: James Marsh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter: Anthony McCarten, based on <i>Travelling to Infinity <\/i>by Jane Hawking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, David Thewlis, Emily Watson and Maxine Peake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date: November 7, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) met Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) at a college party at Cambridge, U.K. in 1963. Their meeting turned into love-at-first-sight. While energetic young Stephen was racing on his bike in Cambridge\u2019s streets, prim and proper Jane was attending church services, looking presentable with high heels, teased hair and fashionable outfits. After being given a diagnosis of motor neuron disease, with a life expectancy of two years, Stephen became depressed and wanted to end his relationship with Jane. We could \u201cfight this thing\u201d she said to Stephen and \u201cI love him\u201d to Stephen\u2019s father. So they got married and settled into domestic life. As Stephen\u2019s condition worsened so did Jane\u2019s. He graduated from one cane to two canes and finally into the dreaded wheel chair, his legs and hands twisted, non-functioning, while his speech pattern was deteriorating. She morphed from a lover to wife to housekeeper, caregiver and a mother for their three children. After thirty years of marriage Jane Wilde got her \u201creward\u201d: a divorce from Stephen and his marriage to Elaine Mason (Maxine Peake), his personal nurse and teacher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This story could be described as a disease-of-the-week melodrama, except that it is based on the actual life of Stephen Hawking, an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Cambridge. In spite of his illness he wrote the gravitational singularity theorems, the general relativity and the \u201cblack hole\u201d theories. At age seventy-two he is still active in science, and was elected a <i>Fellow of the Royal Society<\/i> in 1974, had an audience with the queen of England, and received the <i>Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/i> from Barack Obama in 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director James Marsh presents Stephen\u2019s and Jane\u2019s story with its trials and tribulations during the course of this 123-minute British drama and does not spare us the undignified side of a progressive disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We watch the agonizing deterioration of Stephen and his resolve to continue his works. Eddie Redmayne does an excellent job in portraying the scientist, with his disabilities and inability to lead a normal life. His voice is hoarse, speech is slurred and incoherent Mr. Redmayne spends most of his screen time in a wheel chair, while pressing buttons that will service his speech and writing needs. Anthony Skrimshire is featured as his stunt double.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Felicity Jones plays Jane Wilde in a proper manner, never complaining always ready to help her husband and kids.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excellent supporting performances are presented by Charlie Cox as Jonathan Hellyer Jones, Jane\u2019s second husband, Emily Watson in a five-minute role as Jane\u2019s mother, David Thewillis as Dennis Sciama, Stephen\u2019s teacher and Maxine Peake, in an underdeveloped role of Elaine Mason, Stephen\u2019s nurse and second wife. The voice of the real Stephen Hawking can be heard through a computerized voice apparatus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photographed beautifully by Benoit Delhomme, <i>The Theory of Everything<\/i> was shot in Cambridge and other locations in the United Kingdom. Editing was done by Jinx Godfrey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated PG-13.\u00a0 123 minutes. \u00a9 Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Story: B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: B <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Theory of Everything Focus Features Reviewed for Shockya by Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer Director: James Marsh Screenwriter: Anthony McCarten, based on Travelling to Infinity by Jane Hawking Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, David Thewlis, Emily Watson and Maxine Peake Release Date: November 7, 2014 Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) met Jane Wilde (Felicity 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