The Imitation Game
Strong. Fast. Funny. Intelligent. Important. This film has the potential to shock, inspire and re-think both military and societal warfare at once, all the while delivering in true British form, a cracking good yarn. From the opening frame, the voice of Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) warns you to pay attention or leave. Though he’s speaking to his interrogator in film reality, the effect of the voice over is to make us lean in. Turing is a mathematical genius and a social idiot. The brilliant individual/oddball against the societal machine/norms is not a new story, but this version of that familiar tale is structured, acted and shot extremely well – and that’s just for starters. Alan Turing is considered by some to be a, if not the, Godfather of computing. While that title rankles some because of the many contributors along the way that made computers what they are today, no one can deny his importance in code breaking, particularly the previously thought unbreakable c...