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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- New Jersey Stage SHARE BUTTON 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 November 2014 pg 42