Stephen Hawking's life is celebrated once again in the movie, "The Theory of Everything".
"The Theory of Everything" is a film that follows the extraordinary life of Stephen Hawking based on a memoir written by his wife, Jane. The movie shows Hawking as an energetic post-graduate student in Cambridge during the early 1960s when he met Jane. Hawking, a physics student amazed by the marvels of the universe and Jane, a foreign language undergraduate student got hooked with each other and formed mutual intellectual curiosity and romantic relationship which led to their marriage.
The drama starts when Hawking had a terrible diagnosis of motor neurone disease in 1963 and was given only two years to live. The disease caused his muscles to progressively waste but with the brain still functioning well. The couple will then embark on a journey with Jane staying to be a devoted wife. They vowed to fight the illness together.
The disease did not stop Hawking from fulfilling his dreams and doing great things. The movie shows how Hawking surpassed the incredible turmoil he experienced with the magnificent achievements he was still able to get even though going through such condition.
"The Theory of Everything" stars Eddie Redmayne (Stephen Hawking) from "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and Felicity Jones (Jane Hawking) from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2". The movie started its premiere in the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7 of this year and received good reviews. With its screenplay by Anthony McCarten and direction by James Marsh, the movie will inspire us again with the life of a great man that triumphed life against all odds.
"The Theory of Everything" produced by Working Title Films is set to release in the US on November 7 , 2014.
