'The Imitation Game' is a powerful and eminently well-made biopic that illuminates the facts whilst respecting the story it is based upon.
Imitation Games tells the story of Alan Turing, who was hired by the British military to crack German cipher codes during World War II. Although this movie might seem about Alan Turing or the World War but it's not about either of them, it's about society how much things have changed, it's about how technology evolved.
Benedict Cumberbatch has been a star ever since we saw him in Sherlock in 2010 but this time he has given his best performance in a movie. The best complement one can give is, saying that it didn't felt like watching an episode of Sherlock. Benedict usually looks the same but makes his each character different and that's sign of a good actor.
Keira Knightley made her name in Pirates of the Caribbean franchise but she kinda grew out of it in the middle of it, she gained her first Oscar Nomination in 2006. In Imitation games she plays a brilliant mathematician who is not appreciated by society not even by her parents because she is a woman, she recognizes the stigma and fights it.
This movie feels real, one might say that's because it's based on the life of an actual person but the cast made all the difference, everyone felt like a piece of a giant puzzle. On a side note, watching Charles Dance on screen always makes me smile, now if I think about it I kinda hated him in Dracula Untold. This movie is not about Alan Turing but instead it's about prejudice against the feminine, misconception regarding homosexuality. Turing was in the center of all this but it was more about the society.
