The movie gave some insight into Steven Hawking both as a young man battling the disease and his challenges as he grew older, but stops short of giving much insight into any of the details of his personal family relationships, ie. nothing about what had or has happened with his children. You don't get any sense of warmth regarding his own children, just that he had them. It was a ME account without any of the perspectives of those in his personal life outside of the world of Physics. It seems his whole life story was about his struggles with ALS and how it affected his professional life when in fact, Hawking shows no real humanity except to say he had a quick witted sense of humor and that he fell in love with a woman twice enough to marry but clearly they divorced him because they finally realized there was only his take in the relationship in the final analysis. Sad, his children probably saw him more as machine that had a need to continue to live and less able to give much back. The times you saw him at play, there was no sense of parental love that would show Hawking as more dimensional, if such dimensions of his personality actual exists. On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't want to live with his physical burdens and go through more than half a century with that to carry on a daily basis.
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