“The Imitation Game” is a movie about secrets, whether it be having them or trying to crack them, and the toll some secrets can have on people and their relationships with others. It is also about Alan Turing (here he is pretty much credited with inventing computers as we know them), his work done in code cracking during World War II, and his subsequent government mandated persecution for his sexual orientation.
Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) was a mathematician who got himself hired by the British government to work on their code breaking team, trying to crack the ultimate puzzle, the Nazi Enigma machine, which randomized the codes daily and proved impossible for mere mortals to penetrate. So Turing, played here as if he is nearly crippled with Asperger’s, thought the best way to fight fire was with fire, hence setting out to create a thinking machine that could solve the Germans’ machine. It’s like a mega prequel for “The Terminator.” Had to start somewhere.Continue Reading …