Brilliant in its own right.

Rating: 9/10 (6 April 2015)

It is hard to play a role of a famous person. This Oscar season, two biographic films came out. "The Theory of Everything" and this "the Imitation game". It is natural that people tend to place these two together and make a comparison, and with so many awards given to "the theory of everything", though well deserved, one may gets the sense that it may have over shadowed this film which is equally brilliant, and to some extent, even more so. Within 120 minutes,it tackles many issues which still remain contradictory even today. Homosexuality, war and science, morally correct versus logically correct and the feeling of being alone. Everybody gets lonely, from time to time, that's in our nature, which is why human beings are gregarious species. We constantly feel the need of companions, someone who are close to us, who can resonate with our minds. But for a genius like Allen Turing, it is incredibly hard to find a mind which is as equally smart, therefore leads to his endless feeling of loneliness which eventually, became one of the reasons of his death. This world is mean and simply committed to destroy any being that refuses to fall into conformity. People are afraid of being different because the world will attack the divergent. There is a potential within each human being to become something great, but most of them just cut off their way to it because they are afraid of taking the different path. There are at least two qualities which any great man holds: one is talent which surprisingly, almost each one of us has, sometimes it's just been hided or brutally ignored just for the sake of being "practical"; and the other is having the courage to stand out, to utter a different voice and to carry on ones own belief no matter what anyone else says. One sentence was repeated spoken about in the film - "Sometimes, it is the people that nobody imagines anything of who can do the things that nobody can imagine." It is the voice of every wandering soul, every lost teenagers who think they don't belong. It sends out a message to everyone who's ever doubted themselves of whether he or she is good enough for the things they want that stay who you are. We are all difference, each one of us, and if each one of us is different, then what is the point of being conformed? Isn't it only natural for everyone so stay unique? A hero is the man who can stay true to himself even when facing a thousand accusing fingers.