I agree with the parent poster and a ton of people do. Anyone who actually knows the story of the breaking of Enigma and Turing in general would know that that film is terrible.
I know a great deal about both, Turing being my scientific idol. I thought The Imitation Game was great, though not nearly enough postwar events and his trauma. I realize the title The Imitation Game was meant to be a double meaning, about both Bletchley's cryptographic attempts and Turing's attempts to feign heterosexuality, but the movie ultimately was about breaking encryption, not a study of homosexual life in a bigoted nation. I wouldn't personally call it a biopic. It's a sensationalized version of actual events because the real thing would've been boring. No one wants to watch me, by analogy, sit at a whiteboard beside a computer staring at symbols for eight straight hours.
I'm sorry you didn't get the biography you wanted.
The main criticisms appear to be that the film inflated Turing's contribution to the conception and development of Enigma. "Horribly skewed" seems like a bit of an overstatement.
I agree with the parent poster and a ton of people do. Anyone who actually knows the story of the breaking of Enigma and Turing in general would know that that film is terrible.
I know a great deal about both, Turing being my scientific idol. I thought The Imitation Game was great, though not nearly enough postwar events and his trauma. I realize the title The Imitation Game was meant to be a double meaning, about both Bletchley's cryptographic attempts and Turing's attempts to feign heterosexuality, but the movie ultimately was about breaking encryption, not a study of homosexual life in a bigoted nation. I wouldn't personally call it a biopic. It's a sensationalized version of actual events because the real thing would've been boring. No one wants to watch me, by analogy, sit at a whiteboard beside a computer staring at symbols for eight straight hours.
I'm sorry you didn't get the biography you wanted.
The film is alright, it's just not particularly accurate.
Wait, a ton of people? I stand corrected!
It was very bad storytelling, which is disappointing because Benedict Cumberbatch's performance was very good.
The majority of the people who watched the film probably knew very little about Turing or his work. And now they have a horribly skewed view.
The main criticisms appear to be that the film inflated Turing's contribution to the conception and development of Enigma. "Horribly skewed" seems like a bit of an overstatement.