There is a howling, Ken Russell-type Stephen Hawking biopic pent up inside The Theory Of Everything and it bursts out, à la Alien, during one of the movie’s final scenes, in which the now middle-aged Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), who has zoned out in the middle of one of his own computer-delivered speeches, sees an audience member drop a pen and rises out of his wheelchair to pick it up. By this point, the viewer has already seen Hawking carried through the aisles of an opera house during a Wagner performance; watched him caress the fixtures of the room where Ernest Rutherford split the atom; listened to a doctor diagnose the young Hawking with motor neuron disease, his face severely distorted by a fisheye lens; and heard choirmaster Jonathan (Charlie Cox) woo Hawking’s first wife, Jane (Felicity Jones), by miming along to Michael Nyman-esque figures at a church piano ... The A.V. Club Movie Review: Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking in the neutered biopic The Theory Of Everything
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 06:11:14 +0000
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