Excellent!

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2015)

Easily one of the best movies I've seen seen in at least a year or two.
I checked the "spoiler" box just to be safe, but most people probably have heard a lot of the details of Alan Turing already.
I knew a lot of Alan Turing and Bletchley Park et al, from many documentaries and, or, dramatizations about him and the Enigma machine, etc. But this was so finally done it had many more dynamics. Certainly the best dramatization movie thus far.
For one thing the neat relationship to the woman that was his wife (despite him being homosexual). Incidentally whom I'm sure was a brilliant woman but frankly Joan Clarke doesn't look at all like Keira Knightley; but then that's the movies for you.
Then what really struck me, was here this guy was Gay okay. It was different times back then. In England it was even a high crime. But in perspective you think about what he did, for at least the few people in government that knew what he did; out of how many lives the guy is directly responsible for saving..maybe millions?, they couldn't leave him alone.
He was persecuted and publicly humiliated to the point where he commuted suicide at a relatively young age. This guy with all this courage, and the people that knew what he did for the country hadn't even a modicum of the same courage to stand up for the guy. He was clearly in this day one of the best war hero's of WW2.
And if this wasn't tragic enough, one can only imagine what his work would have produced if he were not persecuted to death. We might have had personal computers by at least the 60's (vs the late 70's), etc.
Also all the actors did excellent performances, the production value was very high, etc., about as perfect a movie as you would expect these days.
A fine movie everyone should see, in particular to learn lessons of history..