I loved 'The Imitation Game'. The movie enlivens the true story of breaking the Nazi Enigma code
I was blown away by all the brilliant performances in 'The Imitation Game' - the film about British WWII British codebreaker Alan Turing and his team's success in building a computer to crack Nazi Germany's 'Enigma' coding machine.
I already knew much of the story, but Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Rory Kinnear and the rest brought the characters to life extraordinarily convincingly.
The screenplay, although it obviously employed some dramatic devices on the personal levels to liven up what is essentially a mathematical and political tale, managed to produce the cinematic equivalent of a page-turner.
The newsfilm images of WWII, which were sometimes cut in to remind us of the horrors that the code-breakers were racing against time to eliminate, were using sparingly enough not to shatter our belief in the human yarn.
There were just enough flashbacks to Turing's schooldays to provide important context; and the scenes of his arrest for homosexuality in 1951, and the appallingly bigoted and primitive punishment imposed on this war hero by the court, leading to his suicide in 1954, cannot have left many dry eyes in the house. Mine certainly were not.
Oh, and by the way; what a relief that the producers resisted inserting any spurious American character to help sell the film in the USA; a device which spoils so many British films and TV dramas these days.
After all, Churchill kept the USA completely in the dark about this, his most vital secret; a sensible precaution from which Britain's leaders today would do well to learn.
I already knew much of the story, but Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Rory Kinnear and the rest brought the characters to life extraordinarily convincingly.
The screenplay, although it obviously employed some dramatic devices on the personal levels to liven up what is essentially a mathematical and political tale, managed to produce the cinematic equivalent of a page-turner.
The newsfilm images of WWII, which were sometimes cut in to remind us of the horrors that the code-breakers were racing against time to eliminate, were using sparingly enough not to shatter our belief in the human yarn.
There were just enough flashbacks to Turing's schooldays to provide important context; and the scenes of his arrest for homosexuality in 1951, and the appallingly bigoted and primitive punishment imposed on this war hero by the court, leading to his suicide in 1954, cannot have left many dry eyes in the house. Mine certainly were not.
Oh, and by the way; what a relief that the producers resisted inserting any spurious American character to help sell the film in the USA; a device which spoils so many British films and TV dramas these days.
After all, Churchill kept the USA completely in the dark about this, his most vital secret; a sensible precaution from which Britain's leaders today would do well to learn.
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