What a fascinating story! I loved this movie from start to end. More so, I would have loved for it to not end just yet. A rare desire when it comes to movies!
Cumberbatch is in vein right now. To think that it was only last year that I saw him for the first time on Sherlock, a British TV series. Well, reading his filmography he had a part in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but that movie was so strange and hard to follow that I don’t have a recollection of his performance.
Anyway, in a rapid success of events, I have seen him grow bigger and stronger in movies like 12 Years A Slave, The Fifth Estate, and August: Osage County. In this movie, he is remarkable and delivers with extreme honesty his interpretation of who this Alan Turing might have been.
This movie not only tells us the secretly kept story of the innovative Turing Machine but the tragedy of a time marked by war and prejudice. Tells the story of innocence loss to the mercy of bullying, the plus and cons of being different, the self awareness resulting from our own complexities and inhibitions and the existing capacity to love beyond the impending limitations of an intimate relationship between a man and a woman with dissimilar sexual orientation.
In the end, this movie is about the casualties; all kinds of casualties. I am sure that once you watch this movie, you will agree!
P.S.: Alexandre Desplat’s OST exudes human emotion, tension, drama, and achievement!