Review of The Imitation Game (2014) by Ledaumas — 27 Dec 2014

Another best actor nominee, Benedict does an excellent job of displaying intelligence, arrogance, torment and lack of understanding, in scene after scene. This tells some people That Alan Turning must have had some kind of autism, yet was brilliant, if only people had been more tolerant (as some are in the movie).

I thought the movie was well-written in trying to explain how they were trying to crack the enigma, but I didn't feel it necessary to take such dramatic license when it distorts facts, like the Russian spy situation which Alan was not involved in, and other such distortions (Alan's team did not make the life and death decisions once cracking the code, others did).

But Alan's story was interesting, the story was told in an entertaining manner as well as educational (which makes the distortions jarring), good acting, then ultimately sad because Alan was misunderstood in his time.

What a difference today on understanding people that are different, whether being deficient in social graces or preferring one's gender, and poor Alan had both. Had that been tolerated, what more could Alan have accomplished that would have helped us all.