FILM REVIEW:
The Imitation Game
By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
In this, the centennial year of the
outbreak of World War I, it’s odd
that we’re receiving a raft of movies set not during that conflict,
but rather its bigger budgeted,
more effects driven 1939 sequel.
Snuggled in between the Brad
Pitt tank drama Fury and his wife’s
POW drama Unbroken, comes
The Imitation Game, which details
the ground-breaking work of Brit-
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ish mathematician Alan Turing in
cracking the Nazi’s ‘Enigma’ system of relaying coded messages,
and his subsequent conviction on
indecency charges (Turing was a
homosexual at a time when sodomy was still outlawed in the UK)
in the early 50s.
The work carried out by those at
Bletchley Park’s top secret facility
has previously been detailed in the
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