I finally got around to watching this Best Picture
contender from last year. Benedict
Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, the real life mathematician who works with other
cryptologists to break the Nazi’s infamous Enigma machine. He created the Turing machine to do it and in
doing so helped usher in modern computing.
Unfortunately he was homosexual in a time where being so was not safe as this film demonstrates with great dramatic tension. Cumberbatch is great in this and I loved the actors who played his
team. Overall a solid film that’s
deserving a watch. Grade: A-
Spoilers: I’ve
read that some of this film is just made up.
But films don’t have to be historically accurate they need to be good
stories. Or, one could suggest that
writer Graham Moore (winner of the Academy award for Adapted Screenplay, by the
way) could have made a story that was just as entertaining while being more
accurate than what was produced. It’s a
very subjective concept, and one I’m not willing to delve into until I know
more about the true story. Life is
complicated and yes, in film, you have to simplify it to make it fit the
parameters of a screenplay. No one should learn history from fiction, but alas many do.
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