The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum’s 2014 film strays away from the field of battle, but this doesn’t make the story any less gripping. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the maths genius behind the Enigma machine, used during WWII to crack the German’s coded messages, which led to the Allies ending the war in 1944.
The film focuses as much on the private life of Turing as it does on the events of the war, but it is an important story, revealing as much about life in Britain during the period as it does about the global impact of the war. Perhaps most importantly, though, it shows how the cracking of the code was just the beginning, and that the use of this information needed to be used in the perfect way, at the perfect time.
The Imitation Game was nominated for eight Academy Awards, with a win for Best Adapted Screenplay. Cumberbatch’s performance was fantastic, and the whole film was riveting throughout. Whilst it focusses too much on Turing himself to be truly considered a ‘war movie’, it is one of the most important movies about the war regardless.
