Academy Awards best actor award goes to…
Being single and a long way from my mother and brother I went to the movie theatre today and watched “The Theory of Everything“. It is a certainty that Eddie Redmayne will be nominated for the Academy Awards best actor category. He should easily win the award for best actor. I haven’t been so enthralled by a portrayal of a living or historical person since I watched Daniel Day Lewis in last years “Lincoln“.
The film itself is very good but not quite great. It primarily focuses on Stephen Hawking’s relationship with his wife, Jane. Felicity Jones is marvelous in the role of Jane. There is great chemistry between the two lead actors. The film also does an admirable job of portraying the stresses inherent in every intimate relationship. I just wish there had been a little more emphasis on Dr. Hawking’s contribution to our understanding of the universe we live in. Having said that I was overjoyed to find the film portraying Dr. Hawking’s atheism in a straightforward manner with only one very brief (and unfortunate) scene where it was implied he might believe God exists in order to make his wife happy.