The Imitation Game - Movie Review

The Imitation Game is a brilliant film about an extraordinary man. Alan Turning was a uniquely important man who unfortunately had a very short and tragic life. The film, however, is not merely about the drama in his life, it’s some kind of celebration of his work and existence.

It gives us a glimpse of what he was like and what the world was like at the time as well as how important men like Turning struggled to find liberty and a place to fit in.

Morten Tyldum who’s a Norwegian director created a beautifully simple masterpiece that revolves around Turning’s complicated personality. Alan Turning was one of the very first geniuses that built what he called “The Universal Machine” and what today we call a computer.

This machine was initially used to help Britain defeat Germany by breaking the Nazi Enigma Code.  The script was written by Graham Moore which means the plot and storylines were perfectly synced together to create a beautiful film.

It starts with a military commander approaching Turning, Benedict Cumberbatch, to join a small team that he put together which includes the best mathematicians and scientists in the world at that time to try and break the Enigma code and understand the encrypted messages the Germans send to plan out their war missions. Benedict played the social awkwardness in an introvert's personality perfectly.