This biographical film based on the memoir, Travelling To Infinity: My Life With Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking, pictures the life, love, struggles and science of Professor Stephen Hawkins.
The story begins in 1963 where a young and carefree Stephen is in attendance at Cambridge where he is doing his doctorate in Astrophysics, and brushes off the concerns of his friends and professor on his lack of a thesis topic.
A thesis topic strays further still from his mind when Stephen meets Jane, a fellow Cambridge student and a Christian, a subject that Stephen finds hard to comprehend as a scientist but does not let effect their budding relationship. Things go from zero to one hundred as they are one day sweethearts and the next married when Stephen is given two years to live. The film goes on to explore the struggles and the accomplishments Jane and Stephen go through during their 30 year marriage.
On the surface you may think that Eddie Redmayne did nothing more than an average job at playing Stephen Hawkins, but when you consider that he had to act as though he had a motor neuron disease, a sentiment that you never questioned during the course of the film you can do nothing more than applaud him for doing such a spectacular job.
Despite the interesting storyline, this film had nothing distinctively intriguing to it. This may sound a little harsh considering it was based on actual events and had to stay true to reality, but there were other aspects that the film could have focused on as it did begin to feel a little repeated at certain points.
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