A Great Movie...but

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2015)

Is a movie well acted if that part that the person is portraying quite different than actual history? If an actor can portray a part in a fictitious manner to create sympathy and compassion for a specific group without regard to actual facts, is this good acting?
I liked the movie itself, however, I am the type that goes home and does research on the actual facts surrounding the movie and characters themselves. This movie is very loosely based on the life of Alan Toring, and contains many historical inaccuracies. Historical inaccuracies not only in facts about the Enigma Machine, historical inaccuracies about the main characters themselves.
The actual history of the matter shows that the Enigma Code was broken in 1932, by Marian Rejewski. One can look at the Wiki article on, "The Imitation Game," to see the many historical inaccuracies.
So, why did Cumberbatch and Knightley portray this type of great acting jobs for these characters? The acting seems great, but when one looks at the facts they are not like the characters of history. They are both trying to create the type of compassion and sympathy for Gay Rights, (end of the film), the very type of compassion that Britain has demonstrated recently towards the historical Alan Toring. My problem, and this is not gay bashing, rather to point out that Cumberbatch is portraying a stereotypical acting job of what a gay person is like. If you are gay and reading this, see the movie, (and it is a well done movie), review the history, step back and say to yourself, "Is that the stereotype I want a portrayed for a gay person?"
* An almost autistic person that has social problems. In fact, he got along with his co-workers. * The machine was named the "Bombe," not after Christopher, his real friend that died when he was 18. * The fictitious scenes of Christopher and the way Turing finds out about his death. * The exaggerated relationship between Turing and Clarke, showing Touring as somewhat a monster for his reason to get engaged. * There is historical evidence that Clarke never visited Toring near his death. * There is historical evidence that his treatment inspired Toring to work more in Mathematical Biology due to the treatment. * The treatment ended 14 months before Touring's death. * There is a possibility that the death was not suicide.
When one reviews the historical facts much of the movie is fiction.