...perfectly acted, perfectly balanced...

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2014)

I usually don't enjoy historically set films with the costumes and the accents, my favourite films are thinkers, mind benders, original unique ideas... So I'm pleasantly surprised that this was nothing like Iexpected.
It's hard for me to pin down what made this a great movie for me considering my usual joys as noted above, and there was nothing clear to me that made it remarkable... but I suppose it was just a perfectly acted, perfectly balanced piece of historical drama.
Of course the movie took liberties with the reality on occasion for the sake of the story, but those few calls were easily forgiven and the majority of less hypercritical viewers will not even think about it. I had already been in contact with Turing's legacy while I was studying AI as his Turing Test is used still today and the birth of the computer the all seeing eye and its negative repercussions, with its birthplace in the midst of war and the defeat of Hitler, sometimes referred to as an anti-Christ himself, all fascinated me.
That's not to mention the stark difference in society at the time regarding homosexuality and how these were once prejudices enshrined in law and in the hands of regular people to enforce, and how the movie shows various relationships with pure subtlety and integrity.
Intrigueing human tale that typithises our treatment of the different.