Film: The Theory of Everything: >Time’s Arrow

摘要

The film of Stephen Hawking’s life is based on Jane Hawking’s memoir: Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, so if you’re expecting science, you may be disappointed. It is a love story and you will need some tissues. It starts with the able-bodied Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) negotiating the cobbles of Cambridge on a rickety bicycle, keeping pace with his friends. He drops a few things and his writing is spidery (but we all know that is expected of a scientist) so when he delivers an equation to his professor on the back of an envelope, no one is surprised. It is only when he has a catastrophic fall while running in the college quad that the devastating sentence is delivered: 2 years. Hawking was only 21. His father, a doctor, warns ‘this will not be a fight Jane but a very heavy defeat’. The film then follows the monumental battle against physical decay that both Stephen and Jane endure.