2001 film Enigma, but in that case
the names were changed, and also
notably the sexuality of its Turing
surrogate. A year before, the Hollywood submarine drama U-571
provoked anger in Britain by rewriting history in favour of having
Americans cracking the Enigma
code. I suspect The Imitation Game
is about as historically accurate as
an episode of The Flintstones, but
it’s the first real attempt to convey
the true genius of Turing and the
importance of his work.
Any film dealing with a hyperintelligent protagonist faces the
difficulty of how to relate his genius to an audience that couldn’t
possibly wrap their small-in-comparison minds around it. Graham
Moore’s screenplay thankfully
never attempts to delve into the
intricacies of Turing’s work; there
are no ham-fisted attempts to relate its mechanics to us, because
Turing couldn’t even explain this
to his co-workers, so far ahead of
them was he intellectually.
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