![]() ![]() The penalty in Turing’s case - hormonal emasculation - is largely attributed to the reason for his eventual suicide. Of course, those who know anything about gay history know Turing was homosexual at a time when such acts were illegal in Britain and carried severe penalties. It’s deep, quiet, pained, secret, allowing only fleeting glimpses into the soul of the difficult, driven genius. With his remote, chilly repose, and vague, slightly off-kilter visage, Cumberbatch gives a spectacular yet unshowy performance. THE IMITATION GAME is an excellent piece of cinema that proves that theres still an audience for mature, thought-provoking drama. Turing’s efforts helped bring an end to World War II, and the machine he developed to crack the Nazi code ushered in the age of the modern computer.Īdapted by Graham Moore from the book “Alan Turing: The Enigma,” the screenplay has been kicking around Hollywood for years, unproduced, until actor du jour Benedict Cumberbatch agreed to play Turing. The Imitation Game delves into the life of Alan Turing, the socially-arrested British mathematician and cryptanalyst who helped his country crack Enigma, the indecipherable Nazi coded-message machine (you can see one on display at D.C.’s Spy Museum). And on that night, at least, manipulation had never felt so welcome. ![]() It’s not an unintelligent film by any extent. It sidesteps the towering hurdles associated with creating human-like machine. ![]() It does what it needs to do, goes where it needs to go, evokes the emotions it needs to evoke, and does so without ever testing our intellectual limits. The Imitation Game asks a computer to not only imitate a thinking human, but a specific gender of thinking human. Imagine my relief, therefore, at The Imitation Game, which is about as formulaic a drama as they come. The night before a screening of The Imitation Game, I’d seen Alejandro González Iñárritu’s manic, “single shot” Birdman, one of those experimental movies that pushes unrelentingly at the boundaries of modern cinema and, in the process, leaves us exhausted without quite knowing why.
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