The Theory of Everything - OSCAR (2014)
The Theory of Everything is a British biographical film directed by James Marsh released in 2014. The script is based on the book of Hawking's first wife ,,Traveling to infinity: My life with Stephen’’ and shows the appearance and the evolution the disease but also his successful career in physics. I'm sorry I did not watch this movie at the cinema. But I was afraid because I do not like Oscar movies too.
The action begins in Cambridge in 1963, where Stephen Hawking will meet his future wife, Jane Wilde. Stephen is a cosmologist and Jane is a student of arts. Cosmology is a kind of religion for intelligent atheists. Believers worship God, and the cosmologists of the singular, ineffective equation that explains everything in the Universe. What's the equation? That's the question.
Although Stephen excels in mathematics and physics, his teachers and friends are concerned that he has not yet chose the subject of his doctoral thesis. After Stephen takes part in a black holes course alongside Professor Dennis Sciama, he speculates that black holes have been part of the Universe's formation and deciding on the topic of PhD. It is only during the research that Stephen's muscles begin to give up. Eventually he falls on the sidewalk and hits his head.
In the hospital the verdict is given. He suffers from the motor neuron disease and has only 2 years to live. What does this disease can do ?! It is a degenerative neurological disease that destroys the brain cells that control the basic activity of the muscles, such as walking, speaking, breathing, swallowing. The signals that the muscles get in order to move away. This leads to general muscle atrophy. Weakening. Finally, the ability to control the voluntary movement is entirely lost. The only thing left unaffected is the brain.
Finding these things, Hawking's survival struggle begins with his wife Jane. How they will evolve and how this movie will end will let you know by yourself. The actors are exceptional and the film has been nominated for numerous awards.
Eddie Redmayne is Stephen Hawking, an atheist convinced genius in memetics and physics, who has motor neurone disease;
Felicty Jones is Jane Wilde, Stephen's next wife. She believes in God and she’s part of the Anglican church. In her youth she also sang in the choir of the church;
Charlie Cox is Jonathan Jones, a widow who deals with the church choir and is hired as a piano teacher for Stephen's son;
Harry Lloyd is Brian, Hawking's roommate;
Emily Watson is Beryl Wilde, Jane's mother;
Simon McBurney is Frank Hawking, Stephen's father;
David Thewlis is Dennis Sciama, Stephen's teacher;
Maxine Peake is Elanie Mason, Hawking's future assistant.
Everyone knew Hawking did not believe in God. When someone in the public asks him whether he has any life use, he says, "It's clear that we're just an advanced race of primates on a small planet, orbiting a very ordinary star, on the edge of one of the 100 billion galaxies. But from the very beginning of civilization, people have longed for knowledge of the order of things in the world. There had to be something very special about the boundaries of the Universe. And what may be more special than the fact that there are no borders. And man's endeavors should not have borders. We are all different. No matter how hard life may seem, there is always something we can do well. As long as there is life, there is hope." This is a speech that, from my point of view, recognizes that there is something above us.
From the point of view of international media, this film deserves admiration for Redmayne's excellent play and his homage to a man who revolutionized quantum mechanics, relativity theory and black hole theory. Hawking's book, A Short History of Time , has been a best-seller in the NY Times for 237 weeks. The book was sold in over 10 million copies worldwide. Hawking is a true god for astrophysics students and specialists.
The Theory of the Whole has received 2 Golden Globes for: Best Soundtrack and Best Actor in a Drama Category, and 2 other nominations for these awards for: Best Drama and Best Actress in a Movie From the drama category. But for the Oscar, things were different. Eddie Redmayne has been rewarded with Oscar for Best Director, but Whole Theory has received four other nominations at the prestigious awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Music for Original Soundtrack and Best Best actress starring (Felicity Jones).
