He approaches his subject with great seriousness, has no doubts about his importance or greatness, and traces Hawking's relatives and friends for information about his early years. With Stephen Hawking, he has met his match. His " Gates of Heaven," about pet cemeteries in California, is one of the best films I have ever seen, and his more recent " The Thin Blue Line" freed a man from Death Row in Texas. Morris is a documentarian who usually takes a detached, not to say sardonic, approach to his subjects. The great man crouches collapsed in a science-fiction wheelchair, a computer control attached to its arm, and sends out enigmatic dispatches, such as: We can figure out most of what has happened in the universe since the first split second, but all the really interesting stuff occurred in that original instant, which remains a mystery to understand it would be to look into the mind of God. Probably because his story is so dramatic, Hawking says he has always resisted a film about his own life, but Morris' film is as much about Hawking as about his theories.
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