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Lots of great stories in today's movie. Small bits that add up.

The Imitation Game (2014)

Unfotunately the story has been wrung clear of any real pain or controversy.

For any of them.

That is OK with me. It is sometimes felt that any famous homosexual ought to get a good coming out story and to be politically correct.

But there were no nice coming out stories in this time frame. There are very few happy endings for homos. That had not been invented yet.

The main story here is not about that anyway. The hero is the Enigma Machine with which Turing and his workers broke the German military code and, it is estimated, ended the Second World War two years earlier than might have been.

There is no doubt that most of this actually did happen and, as a condensed spy story with real codes to break, is enough for me.

I think we have reached a point where making him a homo-hero would be going too far by half.

As it is, this is an interesting story based on true events and they do break the code and keep it quiet so that they won't tip the Germans off so they change their system. I do not think this is a spoiler. It is well known by now.

And so on.

Benedict Cumberbatch is very convincing as Turing. High marks for the rest of the cast as well.

I liked the film well enough and would not mind seeing it again but I would probably FF around some of it.

Sometimes, the British stiff upper lip irks me so that I want to slap a few smarmy faces.

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