NOTE: To make up for their being no Mini-Review Mondays post this week or last week and to make up for not post Oscar reviews before the Oscars aired, I will be reviewing the Oscar nominees over the next week.
Astrophysicist student Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) attends a party at Cambridge University where he meets his future wife Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones), a Cambridge student of literature. Their interests and religious views couldn’t be more different. Their majors share nothing in common and Jane believes in God while Stephen is a steadfast atheist. The two somehow gain a connection and fall in love. Unfortunately while Stephen is working on his college thesis on time and black holes, his body begins showing signs of motor neuron disease. It’s an illness that won’t effect his brain but will eventually lead to total loss of body control. Stephen’s doctor gives him only two years to live. Jane doesn’t give up on Stephen and the two stay together, get married, and have children. But taking care of a husband with such a debilitating disease isn’t easy, as Jane finds out. Continue reading
