Based on Jane Wilde’s memoir “Flight to Infinity: Days with Stephen Hawking”, the movie tells the love story of renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and his first wife Jane Wilde, which began at Cambridge University, as well as Hawking’s inspiring saga before and after his illness.
Jane Wilde was a literature undergraduate who met and fell in love with Stephen Hawking, a physics student studying for his PhD, at a party. However, Hawking, who suffered from motor nerve disease, was diagnosed by doctors as having only a two-year life expectancy, but the two quickly married and started a family with three children.
As Hawking’s condition deepened, he became wheelchair-bound and was unable to speak as a result of pneumonia surgery, while Jane Wilde fell in love with Jonathan, a pianist, during their time together, and eventually decided to part ways with her.
Hawking, as a physicist who studies the theory of time, his life and scientific research are closely linked to time. The movie skillfully uses time as a main thread throughout, and these moments, which include both laughter and tears, carve a clear line on the title page of time: a story about time.
2014 / UK Japan USA / Drama Romance Biography / James Marsh / Eddie Redmayne Felicity Jones
Plot Synopsis:
Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne Eddie Redmayne) and Jane (Felicity Jones Felicity Jones) met at a ball, the two first met and talked to each other, quite some hate each other.
Afterward, Hawking boldly asks Jane to the ball, and the two fall in love.
Unfortunately, a coma caused Hawking to be diagnosed with a rare form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and doctors said he only had two years left to live. Tortured by the disease, Hawking fell into a state of depression, but Jane did not abandon him, and on the contrary, after a few twists and turns, the two entered into a marriage, and Jane gave birth to a lively and adorable child for Hawking.
Hawking’s body quickly weakened, at the same time, he made one achievement after another in academic research.
In order to take care of Hawking, Jane willingly became his “behind the woman”, but this also happens to be the first crack in their happy marriage.
