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by jgrahamc 1737 days ago
The Imitation Game is awful and should never be screened.
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It is a good movie. It introduced Turing to the masses in a compassionate way. Also it showed normal people that cryptography, despite being rather boring and mathy, is extremely important in everyday life.

I also enjoyed Breaking the Code – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/

I would agree that is an enjoyable movie but also terrible history - but then most movies that deal with historical events are wildly inaccurate - usually for fairly understandable reasons.

I was lucky enough to see the stage version of Breaking the Code - Derek Jacobi was outstanding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyDe8IWAxaY&t=168s