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“My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all”.  -Stephen Hawking

Well most of us have heard about Stephen Hawking but I bet only some of us have knowledge about what he is famous for. Am I right?
Born on January 8 in 1942, in Oxford England Stephen William Hawking is a world renowned theoretical physicist. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology, general relativity, and quantum gravity especially black holes. He is also popular for his bestselling book A brief History of Time, Black holes and baby universes and other essays, the universe in a nutshell, my brief history and the grand design.
His book ‘Theory of everything’ is a collection of his several lectures which has been on different topics of Physics. He has complied some of the basic theories related to physics given by Aristotle, Augustine, Newton, Einstein and many others in this short book in such a simplicity that it is understandable to everyone not just scientists. His attempt to explain those sophisticated and complex theories has been successful. Throughout the book he slowly and gradually uncovers the theories related to black holes, big bang, space and time in such a childlike way. To make it easy and simple, he gives examples relating the complex physics theories with daily life. Like when he conclude why universe is expanding from the broken cup example.

Lastly he tries to incorporate all these theories and searches for one unified theory which can explain everything. The book is quite easy to understand and send us to back to those days when we have to read about those gravitational laws and other theories during our school times. The book consists of seven different chapters each explaining theories related to physics.
Talking about recent release ‘Theory of Everything’, it is a movie adapted from the memoir written by Jane Wilde Hawking called Travelling to Infinity: My life with Stephen. The movie revolves around her relationship with Stephen Hawking, Stephen’s quest of finding the unified theory which explains our existence, his disability and the way he coped with the disease and got success in physics.
The book was more about the Stephen’s lecture on Black holes and other sophisticated theories but the movie make up only small percentage of the book. It is more focused on the love and drama and complicated human relationships including marriage, infidelity, loyalty, motherhood, friendship etc. The movie indeed left us with lot of things to think on our existence. The movie is inspiring and depressing at the same time. Inspiring in the sense that of all those difficulties with his disability, Stephen never gave up his quest on finding the theory of black holes and the beginning of time. 
Eddie Redmayme has done such a jaw dropping performance as Stephen Hawking for which he has been awarded with many of the awards and titles. Regardless of the physical state of the character, he has portrayed the personality of Stephen in such a compelling way that at some point we will take him as a real Stephen. 
Equally capable and strong is the character of Jane Wilde which is played by Felicity Jones. She was flawless in the character as Jane. It is said that woman is another name of love, affection, and the character has indeed proved it. Despite of all the consequences she knew she had to face if she remain with Stephen, she never gave up on him. But she married him and took care of him and their three children with lots of compromises and no complains. 
Another important character in the movie Jonathan Jones which is played by Charlie Cox. He is a widower who starts to develop close relationship with both Stephen and Jane. In the difficult times, he helped the Hawking family to raise the children of Stephen and taking care of Stephen. During the process, Jonathan and Jane had already started to develop an emotional relationship.
Good thing about the movie is, it has not modified the memoir of Jane as it didn’t have any typical love and drama to be seen in Hollywood movies. Jane cared for her husband unconditionally and it hadn’t portrayed her as a betrayer when she developed feelings for Jonathan. Neither it has shown Stephen as cheater when he left Jane. But it showed that we all are humans and it is normal to occur such stage in marriage. There is not a place where we think Jonathan as a villain. So, the movie is more realistic , the one which we can relate to. It was not happily ever after for Jane and Stephen together but they were happy with Jonathan and Elaine.
Another thing about this movie that I liked the most is you are never going to feel sorry for Stephen at any point of this movie. This is probably because he himself didn’t feel sorry for himself instead when he was diagnosed with the disease he was happy to know that his brain won’t be affected. This actually is very inspiring as it teaches us to see positive sides of life. 
Overall this movie is complete package of love, drama, hope and has portrayed  the life of brilliant theoretical scientist  in a beautiful way.