1 Feb 2015

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING ALREADY SEEN

FOTO: gameit.es

Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable public figures of the 20th century. His work, personality, as well as his perennial fight against the horrible ALS deserved a decent movie script a long time ago. It finally got it, with „The theory of everything”, but nothing more than that.

Such a fascinating life story is compressed inside the two hours of numerous common places, with little exclusive and almost no controversial facts.

Luckily, male lead role is there to put it right, to some extent at least.

Young Eddie Redmayne literally twisted himself inside out for this one, reminiscing Daniel Day-Lewis’s Christy Brown in „My left foot”. Unfortunately, his effort isn’t matched by the supporting cast, raising serious questions about some of the five „Academy” nominations „Theory of everything” raised in this year’s race for the „golden boy”.

In the end, Eddie will be a major contender for the male lead title at the „Kodak” theatre, alongside phenomenal Keaton, but the rest of the flick falls behind significantly. And that’s a real shame.


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