Probably the best English language flick of 2014 . . .

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2015)

. . . THE IMITATION GAME profiles the man who invented computers, as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI), and shortened WWII by 24 months, "saving 14 million lives." Since Mr. Turing was gay, his life was sad. Things "might get better" for some, but NOT for him. The only motivation for his life was to build a machine to replace his childhood buddy Christopher, who died young suddenly from tuberculosis. (Which is another way of saying that IF Christopher hadn't died as a schoolboy, the Allies may have LOST WWII!) An interesting sidebar is that the Germans STILL may have won the War, if they had not ended most of their encrypted messages with their standard "Heil Hitler" sign-off. Sadly, Mr. Turing was doomed because he was the first to point out that knowing ALL of Germany's war plans in advance could only be useful IF the information was used in an extremely selective manner (so the Nazis would not replace their compromised "Enigma Machine" with a less transparent device). Therefore, Turing and "intelligence" officers such as future novelists Ian Fleming and J.D. Salinger played God, "allowing" the Third Reich to kill millions of "nonessential" soldiers, sailors, and civilians at times less crucial than D-Day. This sordid mess was covered up for 50 years, and the mastermind deciding who lived and who died--Mr. Turing--was driven to a questionable "suicide" by the authorities (so they say). Truly, Turing was the gay Messiah.