The Theory of Everything

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Has anybody seen this yet? Saw it today. Eddie Redmayne is absolutely stunning. I highly recommend.

Am going tonight. Can't wait!!

Hope you love it as much as I did.

He should definitely get an Oscar for it - amazing performance.

That's good to know. I really want to see it. The rest of the family want to watch the hobbit. As I usually get my way, for once I'm letting majority rule.

Ooh I really want to see this but baby DD will scream like a banshee if I try leave her with anyone.

Will have to wait until it's out on dvd. Really glad that you recommend it.

I've refused to see The Hobbit, having loathed the other two.

MrBlubber - this would be worth leaving her anyway (you won't be able to hear her!).

Or see if it's on anywhere with a special baby screening?

I'd love to but she's a screaming nightmare. She'd ruin it for everyone and I'd get booed out of the cinema

True story - was watching a trailer for The Theory of Everything in my local cinema before Christmas. Looked round who was sitting at the front of the cinema bit Stephen Hawking himself . Made my night!

Awww. :(

SIL really really really wants to see this. Since I will have to take her I'm glad its good.

I do like Eddie Redmayne.

No way, MrsMin! Amazing.

That's fantastic MrsMiniver! What was the film?
The Theory of Everything is absolutely fantastic - amazing performance from Eddie Redmayne. Credit should also go to the set designers and costume peeps - they've really caught the dresses/ hairstyles/ house styles of the various periods well.

YY re designers etc. And it is exquisitely staged too - some amazing shots.

The Imitation Game. Even funnier was that at the moment I spotted him I was whispering to the dcs that I'd met Stephen Hawking a few years ago....and then there he was again!

Where in the world are you mrsminiverscharlady?

Cambridge

Update: loved it. She (actress playing his wife) was amazing. Teared up several times.

Fantastic film, loved it . Everything about it, cast brilliant and so true to the Cambridge of the early sixties according to DH . Go and see it !!!

I liked the film while I was watching it, while I was swept up in it but in retrospect it was all a bit superficial.

We were told that he only had two years to live but he's still going 50-odd years on. How come? Good luck, improvement in medicine, Jane's ministrations? Never explained.
We didn't get any sense of how he arrived at his great theories, they seemed to appear out of nowhere. There was not much description of the thought processes (compare with The Imitiation Game ).
We didn't really hear about Jane and her life. How did she feel about giving up her aspirations, how did it feel to be one of the last pre-Boomer dinosaurs, what did she think about Women's Lib?

For a film about clever people I felt that there didn't seem to be a lot of introspection or insightfulness going on.

senua If you want to know how she feels try and iPlay her Woman's Hour interview from sometime last week.

She was asked whether she would still have married him if she had known what the future would hold. There was the longest pause I think I've ever heard on the radio before she answered the question.

I heard it and very good it was too. I wanted more of that in the film.

Stephen was incredibly chirpy throughout the film. Was there no dark night of the soul or an atheistic 'why me?' Did they discus the inheritability of the disease before having children? etc etc

I read something that said he pretty much refused to speak about his disease with her.

Yes, I heard that too (may have been in the Woman's Hour interview). She said that if they had talked it through, instead of her acquiescing to his refusal, then the marriage might have been stronger. That wasn't conveyed in the film but could easily have been a mother/daughter conversation.

Does he spend the first year after his diagnosis feeling sorry for self & reading comic books? Then after a year he decided that since he hadn't died yet, & that he wanted to get married so he had better finish PhD & get a job (being 1960s when a man had to support his wife).

That's what physicists in 1980s used to say about his reaction.

I'm going next weekend to see this, so I'm glad it sounds good.

The lady who plays his wife was Ethel Hallow in The Worst Witch.