“The Imitation Game” clearly blends fact and fiction here and there for narrative effect (I’ll get to that later on). It’s clear Turing loved Christopher (he goes onto name the machine that saves the world after him), but it’s ambiguous as to how far it goes. But this narrative isn’t quite given enough screen time to feel as powerful as the film intends it to be. He also seemingly becomes Turing’s first love. They become inseparable, passing notes that decode into mildly romantic messages. Both are intended to present the tragedy of Turing’s life, but both do so in questionable ways (note: major spoiler alerts ahead).Īt the boarding school, a young Turing meets Christopher, a boy who introduces him to the very ideas of de-coding that would eventually help him do the remarkable things he did. When the film does move away from the thrills of Turing and company trying to crack the Enigma code, it does so by shifting back and forth between two other narratives: Turing’s experiences as a boy at a 1920s boarding school, and the investigation he faced for his homosexuality in the early 1950s. And I never felt like the ridiculous tragedy it was that the British authorities destroyed the life of one of their country’s true heroes was properly honored. The fact that Turing was gay is not shied away from - it’s inarguably a big part of the film - but it’s the way it goes about portraying it that feels diluted and lazy. I never felt the unimaginable turmoil Turing clearly went through. But that’s obviously not all there is to Turing’s story, and it’s when director Morten Tyldum and writer Graham Moore try do the rest of it justice that “Imitation Game” feels like a missed opportunity. The work he did to crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma code (inventing the computer in the process) is the film’s primary narrative and it’s presented to us with extraordinary production value and a tight, exciting pace. The film certainly does a good job honoring Turing’s professional achievements. Rick Dalton Apparently Just Died in Tarantino’s Alternate Universe: ‘OUATIH’ Character Was 90
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