Imitation Game (2014)

I just got and  watched this movie from Netflix. I really liked it. It had something for everyone. It is based on true events so people who like history will like it. It is based mostly during World War 2 so people interested in that war will like  this. It has a lot of science, math and technology so people who like those fields will like the realistic side. It also deals with a dark time in British history (the open discrimination of homosexuals.) There is also some cloak-and-dagger stuff going on.
 

The movie is about Alan Turing and how he and his team broke the Nazis enigma code which allowed the British to know what the Germans were planning and how they had to make sure the Germans never learned that their code was broken. It also shows the different hardships that each person  - especially Turing - had to deal with. They had to lie to their friends and family about their jobs both during the war and for 50 years afterwards. Turing is also consider the father of the computer and without him we wouldn't have all the technology we use today.
 

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing and he did a really good job. He not only looked like Turing, but also included his odd mannerisms. Keira Knightly plays Joan Clarke who was Turning's best friend and ex-fiancée and also did a good job. Mathew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance and Allen Leech help to round-out this movie.

The movie makes you stop and think about how we regard the people who have worked to help protect us. It is estimated that because of Turing and his helpers the war ended 2 years earlier and saved around 14 million people. And how did his Government repay him for his service? They arrested and convicted him of being a homosexual and gave him the choice of either 2 years in jail or chemical castration. He chose the latter and within a year he committed suicide. It wasn't until 2013 that he was pardoned by Queen Elizabeth II.