Comment by jgrahamc
5 months ago
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.
5 months ago
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.