The Imitation Game

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2015)

The reviewer from Washington, Tyne and Ware, begins with such an atrocious grammatical error "the best film I've saw..." that it is hard to take his opinion seriously over anything connected to this film. However, if it made him go home and look into Turing's life, the film accomplished its purpose. As one of the Wrens taking down the coded messages, I was in complete ignorance of anything connected with Bletchley Park until the thirty years of the Official Secrets Act were over and I too, went into every detail of those happenings that I could find, mainly through the book Enigma, which was written after that time. There are many errors in the film, mainly in the way their work was discussed in public places, but in general, it is a magnificent portrayal of that perilous time. I find it typical of modern thinking that some reviewers consider that there is not enough emphasis on Turing's homosexuality, but apart from the fact that it led to his tragic suicide, it is of the least importance. Not only that, but these people do not understand that it would be desperately covered up in those days, as public knowledge of it would have led to a prison sentence, not to mention his being taken away from his supremely important mission. Mrs. Noreen Pryor