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Turing was not that socially awkward, there's no evidence he was bullied at school, he wasn't the first to crack German codes, he wasn't the sole inventor of the "cracking" machine, he had a good working relationship with his team, Denniston was supportive of him, and although there was a Russian sp...

The film sets up a theme of deception (or, to be more accurate, imitation), and it plays out pretty well through the film.

The films narrative alternates between three significant times in Turings life: his education at Sherborne School as a teenager, his classified work with Enigma during the war and the investigation surrounding Turings sexual orientation in 1952.

Looking back, the above-mentioned conversation between Alan Turing and his school friend Christopher Morcom, is for me the perfect summary of the fascinating life of the intellectual mathematician Turing.

Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing delivers one of the best performances of recent memory.

Knowing what happens to Turing ahead of time (even before the film's closing titles so kindly inform you) does rob the film's final scenes of their emotional impact, but you're pretty much used to that sort of inconsistency of quality by the time the film ends.

Well with his decoding of the Enigma machine you could easily argue that Alan Turing was the most important individual of the entire war effort (even Churchill himself said that Turing made the single biggest contribution of anyone to the Allies victory).

He seems like he really is Alan Turing in this film, like he really knows how to crack the Enigma codes and knows exactly what kind of machine he's building.

Cumberbatch is truly excellent in his role as as Turing, portraying the genuinely eccentric Turing, a man full of strange gestures and awkwardness, and finding himself responsible for one of the most important projects of the war, dealing with military commanders and the cold-hearted British intelli...