The Imitation Game Review

This beautiful piece of storytelling tells the story of the mathematical genius, Alan Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch. The gripping story is set in the early 1940s, during the second world war. Britain desperately tries to gain the upper hand in the war and puts together a team with the best cryptographers in the country to decipher German messages which are encrypted with the unbreakable Enigma machine.

Alan and his team, after months of failure, finally calibrate their decoding machine - which he names Christopher, after his childhood crush who tragically passes away - and breaks the Enigma machine. After their success, the team is dissolved and are ordered to never speak of the machine they built or meet each other.

Years later, Alan is charged with "gross indecency" (homosexuality) and is given a choice between a jail sentence and chemical castration; he chooses the latter so as to continue his work. The ending remarks that after a year's hormonal therapy, Alan committed suicide at the age of 41; his work led to the creation of "Turing machines", which we now call computers.

The performances of both Benedict and Keira are an absolute delight, the background music was mirificent and the historical elements were brilliantly portrayed.

All in all, the film is a brilliant piece of art, immortalising the story of a fallen hero.

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