《萬物理論》是根據斯蒂芬·霍金第一任妻子簡·王爾德的回憶錄改編而成的傳記電影,講述了“宇宙之王”霍金的二三事。21歲,躊躇滿志、意氣風發的霍金來到了人生中最大的轉折點。那一年,他遇見了美麗動人的簡;那一年,他患上了肌萎縮側索硬化癥。此后,簡不離不棄地照料了他二十年;此后,他的身體被禁錮在輪椅上,思想卻遨游到廣袤的宇宙。
這部電影最出彩的要數“小雀斑”埃迪·雷德梅恩的表演了,憑借在這部電影中神一般的演技,小雀斑奪得了今年金球獎影帝。“小雀斑”詮釋的霍金,無論是外形還是眼神都無比真實,神還原不過如此。而影片中最動人的一幕莫過于簡俯下身,摸著霍金的臉,哽咽地說:“I have loved you. I did my best.”,四目相對,淚如雨下。再美好的愛情,也抵不過現實的殘酷。然而放棄了自己的一切,守護了霍金二十年的簡確實也無愧一句“I did my best.”。
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1963年,21歲的斯蒂芬·霍金就讀劍橋大學研究學院,意氣風發。在一個新年派對上,他邂逅了正準備入讀倫敦大學的簡·王爾德,倆人一見鐘情。
Stephen: Hello.
Jane: Hello.
Stephen: Science?
Jane: Arts.
Stephen: English?
Jane: French and Spanish. What about you? What, what are you?
Stephen: Oh, cosmologist[宇宙學家], I’m a cosmologist. Jane: What’s that?
Stephen: Oh, It’s a kind of religion for intelligent[聰明的] atheists[無神論者].
Jane: Intelligent atheists?
Stephen: You’re not religious, are you?
Jane: C. of E. Church of England注1.
Stephen: England, yes. I suppose someone has to be.
Jane: What do cosmologists worship[崇拜] then?
Stephen: What do we worship? One single unifying[統一的]
equation[方程式] that explains everything in the universe.
Jane: Really?
Stephen: Yes.
Jane: What’s the equation?
Stephen: That is the question. And a very good
question. I’m not quite sure yet. But I intend to[打算做] find out. Jane: Then why didn’t you stay at Oxford?
Stephen: Because my finals exams are such in shambles[屠宰場] that the examiners they summoned[傳喚] me in for a “Viva[口頭測驗]”, and they told me that if I got a second...
Jane: What’s a “Viva”?
Stephen: Oh, it’s, a sort of, mildly terrifying face-to-face thingy. Jane: Like an interview?
Stephen: An interrogation[審問]. And I told them that if they gave me a second class degree, then I’d stay with them and do my research at Oxford, but if they gave me the first, that I needed to get into Cambridge, then they would never have to see me again.
Jane: They gave you the first.
Stephen: They gave me a first.
Jane: Of course.
斯蒂芬:你好。
簡:你好。
斯蒂芬:理科生?
簡:文科。
斯蒂芬:英語專業?
簡:法語和西班牙語專業。你呢?你是……
斯蒂芬:噢,宇宙學家,我是宇宙學家。
簡:那是什么?
斯蒂芬:噢,這是一種有智慧的無神論者的宗教。簡:有智慧的無神論者?
斯蒂芬:你不信教,是吧?
簡:英國國教,也就是英國圣公會。
斯蒂芬:英國,是的。我想人們必須要有信仰。