The Imitation Game Review

Great Britain 1952. A police officer responds to a burglary report at the private home of university professor Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch). The unfriendly professor soon dismisses him without filing a complaint. Perceptive, the agent will decide to investigate the past of such a sullen person.

From that point on, The Imitation Game will travel back in time, to childhood, the period of the Second World War and the 1950s, to tell us the fascinating story of Alan Turing , a man of unwavering logic who led the team of linguists, academics and mathematicians responsible for the Allied victory in World War II by breaking the code used by the Nazis for their secret communication.

But ENIGMA, the machine used by the Nazis for such communication, is actually the perfect pretext to discover the achievements, virtues and adversities that he had to face, not only a prodigious scientist, but also a society that sank the personality and soul of thousands of people due to their condition or gender.

Review of The Imitation Game

“ The Imitation Game ”It has already garnered well-deserved critical acclaim and Golden Globe nominations, making it inevitably one of those must-see movies. If the indomitable audience conceded, it would be fair that the collection and the box office were on a par with the stars that so many prestigious media have awarded to such a work. Everything points in the perfect direction for it to become one of those classics that through a fictional truth (the story of Alan Turing), everyone has a good time in the room. Those who are looking for entertainment as well as those who are looking for quality or who prefer to spend a pleasant time without more, will be pleased with all their expectations, being also rewarded with an element that, although all the conditions are ideal, does not always appear. Call it magic if you want.

It's fantastic and a real pleasure to find a movie like “The Imitation Game” where the audience is treated with respect and politeness. The film directed by Morten Tyldum lacks artifice, arrogance or a boring guide that forces us to see those things that we take for granted that we are going to have to see. It is so surprising in its conception and reasoning that it is preferable to ignore any type of information that concerns its protagonists, even more so when it comes to Alan Turing who, on the other hand, his very person has been an enigma for the general public until The Queen of England awarded him posthumous recognition in 2013 for his services in recognition of his work in World War II.

“The Imitation Game” places us in the context with absolute simplicity and elegance. The scenes follow one another agile through different time lines that come to complete at each moment just the moment of the general plot. A very skillful script work with which the rhythm of the film is always kept high. The just thing is told at the necessary moment without thereby diluting anything of what is exposed. No matter what the exact conflict in the scene, the war rages on inexorably and time is running against a motley crew of geniuses in fields as diverse as linguistics, cryptology, logic, mathematics and chess.

It's hard to talk about the film's underlying themes without being boorish or rude. Its simple mention would already be a "palletism" compared to the subtlety with which the film treats them. In fact, the end of "The Imitation Game" itself is as unexpected as it is forceful. And I'm not talking about biographical data. From the start, the film focuses on Alan Turing and his work to crack the Nazis' Enigma machine. Of course, the movie is about it. Of that and of his achievements in the field of digital computing, impossible without his contribution. And yet, in reality, it is also more important than the simple account of a historical event that has been recorded in books.

Graham Moore, screenwriter of “The imitation game”, has always been passionate about the character of Allan Turing . He thus tells that when he was a child he attended computer school camps where all the kids talked about the great genius of geniuses who never got enough recognition as Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs have today. The screenwriter's passion pervades each scene, each sequence endowing the film with an invisible energy that grabs the viewer's attention without the need for analysis. The emotion captures and retains without one understanding very well why. It's what good deeds have to be universal…everyone likes them in a way that almost seems like magic.

The cast completes its fair share in bringing the film to life. Thus Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Charles Dance, Mark Strong and the rest of the cast correctly and subtly interpret each assigned character, being in the case of Cumberbathch, with his subtle approach to Allan's Asperger syndrome, and the always straight Charles Dance , something that borders on excellence in the first and mastery in the second.

“Te imitation game” is a film of such high quality in each and every one of the aspects that it contains that it will satisfy any type of audience that goes to theaters. No one will be disappointed as the most sensitive and alert viewers find it fascinating.