Review Thursday: The Theory of Everything

Hey guys! It's Review Thursday, and in this first edition Thursday post, I am going to be reviewing the movie, The Theory of Everything.

In the movie, it's basically about the life of Stephen Hawking from his 21st birthday all the way to today.

In the beginning, he is at a college party with his friend and he meets a Jane Wilde, little known at that time that it would be his first wife. After that party, they start going on dates and Stephen starts realizing some odd behaviors. From his right arm not functioning properly to falling down right in the middle of his college campus, there was definitely something wrong.

After he fell, he was rushed to the hospital where he was told that he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS, which a disease affecting the brain and the muscles, which weaken over time.

The doctor told him that he had only two years left to live. Shocked hearing this news, Stephen continues on living his life.

Later in the movie, he gets married to Jane Wilde, and has three children. He starts having more symptoms and needs support. His family buys him a wheelchair, while Stephen thinks that it's temporary.

Because Jane is tending to Stephen more than her children, she hires Jonathan Hellyer Jones, someone else to tend to Stephen so Jane can be a mother and take care of their children.

While Jonathan, Jane, and the children go camping, Stephen attends a movie and starts coughing up blood. He is rushed to the hospital and he has to have surgery on his throat, which leaves him unable to talk.

With that inability, he is upgraded to a new wheelchair where a machine attached to it can actually talk and he can control what it says. After that, he wants to go to The United States with Elaine Mason, a woman who has helped him after the surgery. He divorces Jane, marries Elaine, and moves to the United States.

Near the end of the movie, Stephen is at a convention and he sees student that drops her pen. He fantasizes that he actually walks and picks up the pen for her, in which he can't.

In the end of the movie, important bits and pieces from that movie all reverse backwards to where it all started: when and where he met Jane.

Thank you guys for reading today's post! Tomorrow is Randomness Friday, so I bet you all are looking forward to that. Have a nice day and thanks!

-Adam