The Theory of Everything

"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."

Fresh New Year, fresh new films to see! 2015 promises to be a great year for film so we thought we would start off with a potential great, 'The Theory of Everything'.

'The Theory of Everything' is a British biographical film following the life of Stephen Hawking. In the 1960's at Cambridge University lived a man named Stephen Hawking. Still undecided on what field to focus his PhD on, Hawking meets a lovely young lady named Jane Wilde. The two spend much of their time together and subsequently fall in love. Life then throws Stephen a massive curve ball. He collapses in the middle of the university grounds and is rushed to hospital where he finds out that he has Motor Neurone Disease. Stephen is given two years to live. Distraught at this devastating news, Hawking locks himself away from the world and pushes Jane away. Jane however isn't giving up that easily on the man she loves and though despite warning from Stephen's dad she decides to stick by Stephen. As his condition gets progressively worse, and the family grows, Jane reaches breaking point and decides she needs help.

This film was truly breath taking. I found myself upset, happy, appalled, angry, and I had a tear to the eye on more than one occasion. The acting was of the highest calibre. Eddie Redmayne was truly magnificent as the man himself. It must have been a very daunting and difficult task but he nailed it. As for Felicity Jones as Jane Wilde Hawking, she portrayed the angst, happiness, pretty much everything spot on. Such great casting, I could feel the love this couple had oozing out of the screen, it was so so believable. The cinematography was also spot on with some amazing shots and different filming styles all thrown in. I particularly loved the rewind at the end which brought me to tears for the fifth or sixth time in one film. Some scenes were completely dialog-free but so well written and acted that they were almost more powerful than if they had have had dialog. I could have done with a bit more about how the disease affects people as this was only lightly touched on. I would highly recommend viewing this film. Not only is it a lovely love story which is brilliantly shot and acted, but it also tells the story of the genius of Stephen Hawking and his awful condition. 

9/10 for 'The Theory of Everything'. I have a feeling this film is going to stay high in my 2015 league table. Now go see it!