Taglines: Unlock the secret. Win the war.
The Imitation Game, which includes a Alan Turing biography, deals with the life of Turing, who is one of the architects of the victory in World War II and largely ended the war, on the basis of heroic-treachery. While it allows us to see Turing as a treacherous genius for the time he lived, and as a miraculous hero for today, he is told in a sentence that Alan Turing turned his life into hell, although it cannot be understood exactly where it was put. It would be more correct to say that it makes sense rather than telling; because the film refrains from opening even this issue.
The biggest criticism of The Imitation Game comes from making an introverted criticism. Unfortunately, Alan Turing offers another Alan Turing prototype to explain a genius like Alan Turing only in cartoons and to borrow Hollywood clichés for this. Turing, who is arrogant as far as he is in his genius, does not understand the jokes and does not socialize, but turns Turing into a narrative prison that gets along well with the girls. So we are not very curious about it. A robotic genius depiction is hurting this biography.
Enigma, which is the main subject of the film, covers a fusible place in the film for a long time as a detail. However, Enigma occupies a very important place in the story of Turing. As soon as Turing’s effort to socialize ends with the competition of genius, the story of the destruction of the Enigma machine begins. The subtle relationship between hero and treachery begins to touch here. Turing does not share the effort of other experts with anyone, both from his arrogance and self-confidence. These squares prepared only in accordance with the genius type; In parallel with the hating of Turing and making it unbearable, it leads to a treachery blow.
The most dramatic point of the movie is; It is with the report received after the Enigma machine works successfully. In this tragic scene, he hides secret information from Turks that will hit Turing with treason again. Although he will later share this information with other units, the pessimistic and unsympathetic atmosphere of Turing is presented to the audience as a genius. The treachery blow that the film wanted to hit Turing peaked with homosexuality that suddenly erupted and Turing’s life is being finished.
The Turing biography, besides being interesting with the devoted Turing prototype, a character prototype embellished with robotic behavior, and the tragedy stamp attached to it (homosexuality), positions it either as an isolated but evil body in its own right. It must be said that the movie could not handle both of them properly. The film, which is determined to continue the first, places the evil in Turing and ends its story eagerly to explain this second theory. It is impossible to get a perfect portrait from a movie stuck between Robot Turing and the evil Turing.
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The Imitation Game (2014)
Directed by: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Allen Leech, Tuppence Middleton, Hayley Joanne Bacon, Hannah Flynn, Grace Calder
Screenplay by: Graham Moore
Production Design by: Maria Djurkovic
Cinematography by: Oscar Faura
Film Editing by: William Goldenberg
Costume Design by: Sammy Sheldon
Art Direction by: Nick Dent, Rebecca Milton, Marco Anton Restivo
Music by: Alexandre Desplat
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking.
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Release Date: November 28, 2014
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