The year is 1963 and a party takes place somewhere in Cambridge University. At the party, astrophysics student and the film's main focus Stephen Hawking (played by that guy who wed that girl that Hugh Jackman's character raised as his own in Les Miserables, Eddie Redmayne) comes across literature student Jane Wilde (played by Norman's assistant at Oscorp in the last Spider-Man film, Felicity Jones) and they start to form a friendship and then later a relationship. He decides to focus his work on researching black holes when he theorises that they may have played a part in the creation of the world. As this happens however, his muscles begin to wear out and after a fall, he goes to see a doctor who tells him that he has motor neuron disease which is something that will make him physically unstable and not able to talk, but his brain will remain unchanged. And with only having 2 years to live, Hawking decides to try and make the most of it (and you can guess the rest of the story from there).
I always knew that going into this film, it would be hard to sit through and it is. But that being said, it is a great film. Ed is able to portray the character well especially in the stages of MND that Hawking went through as well as life in general, and Jones does well as Hawking's first wife too as we see how much hard work is put in to accommodate not only their children, but Hawking himself too, ultimately leading to things that affects their relationship of all things. Its a great film that is very accurate to the real Stephen Hawking and it does justice to the real life story and is definitely a worthy film for BAFTAs and the like. 9/10
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