Rights History As Well As Stands As A Call For Tolerance

Rating: 9/10 (8 January 2015)

The story of Alan Turing is both triumphant and tragic. An absolutely brilliant mathematician who morphed into a juggernaut of a electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer, and a transcendent mind as to how best to use the troves of information only he, and his team, deciphered.
Turing was deep in the shadows as the intel his team provided turned the war from the darkness of Hitler to victory for the Allies saving millions of lives in the process. He couldn't come out of that shadow as it was mandated his team's work must remain classified. The Imitation Game makes it poignantly clear Turing paid dearly for his crucial part never being celebrated. If his life wasn't difficult enough, being a closet homosexual professor, the laws of Britian made it infinitely more difficult by prosecuting what the law only saw as a common college professor with a lascivious and lewd predilection. The heartbreaking fact of some of the same intolerance Hitler practiced visited a man who should have been celebrated as a national treasure, likely propelling him to suicide, is finally revealed. A colossal irony to be sure. The Imitation Game brings some much needed justice to story of Alan Turing and does so with a very matter-of-fact telling of both the triumph and tragedy of his life.
The Imitation Game is a movie that works on virtually all levels. It rights history and reveals much about how one man made a huge impact on winning the war for the Allies. It touches the inner humanity of the viewer as it quite eloquently shows the evil of intolerance toward our fellow human beings. Something many in the world still have not grasped; just today there was a terrible terrorist attack in France. This is a story that needed to be told and the whole of director, cast, cinematography, and production have brilliantly recreated so we can be immersed in, and, hopefully, learn from. A strong contender for academy awards for direction, actor, supporting actress, and best picture, you simply owe it to yourself to see this film.