Felicity Jones is fine as his girlfriend who stands by him when his illness is diagnosed and becomes Mrs Jane Hawking.
The story here starts in 1963 when Hawking is a new graduate student in Physics and is having difficulty declaring a field of study for his PhD. But he finally gets inspired and writes a thesis on the origin of space and time as a singularity that became the Big Bang. Of course later in life he said his new theory goes against that earlier one.
The thing about this type of Physics, there is no good experimental evidence for most of them, making it difficult to know how valuable their contributions might be, aside from his best-selling book “A Brief History of Time.”
As the movie unfolds we don’t get a good feel for the time but in the end there are Hawking children in their late teens so it must have been up to about 1990 or so. We see Hawking’s physical health degrade, his being fitted with various devices that allows him to communicate.
A part of the film details his theory in physics and how eventually earning his doctorate, he went against his own theory.
There are some slow moments though and that ultimately is what reduces my rating for this film
Eddie Redmayne won a well deserved Oscar for playing the professor. Continue reading “Eddie Redmayne of course won the best actor Oscar for his performance as Hawking and it is fully deserved”