On the last day of 2014 hub told me he had won 2 tickets to the film the Imitation Game for a pre-premiere. I was over the moon of course. This film with my favourite actor isn't playing in all cinema's in my country sadly.
So last Saturday the 3th of January we traveled to the city where it was shown and it left us both speechless really. The whole cast is so very wonderful but Benedict was phenomenal.
The story is about Alan Turing a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and pioneering computer scientist who was hired by the Allied forces to crack the Nazi German Enigma code and win the Second World War. Turing later was prosecuted for being a homosexual and could choose between two years imprisonment or chemical castrastion. He chose the latter so he could continue his work only the hormonal treatment affected his brain at a point where he couldn't even work anymore.
Alan Turing took his own life by cyanide poisening only 41 years of age in 1954.
This man having saved about 14 million people by solving Enigma and ending the war earlier this way, wasn't getting the acknowledgement he was supposed to get. Only years after his death in 2013 Queen Elizabeth II granted him a posthumous pardon.
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Alan Turing, an outstanding performance by Benedict Cumberbatch was the father of our present-day computers with his invention of the Turing machine.
The film is nominated for five Golden Globes nominations among which best actor, best supporting actress for Keira Knightley who plays fellow code breaker Joan Clarke, best film.
The gorgeous music is by Alexandre Desplat and gives you chills throughout the film. It leaves you sitting in the cinema after the film is over actually.
It's a heartbreaking, beautiful story and a real one as well. The Golden Globes are an indication for the Oscar nominations and I wouldn't be surprised if this would be Benedict's first Oscar nomination. It would be well deserved!
© KH
