Benedict Cumberbatch stars in yet another film in role that he is no novice to. In 'The Imitation Game,' he is Alan Turing and there he stares at people like codes to be deciphered.
Benedict Cumberbatch has accumulated a filmography littered with high IQs, portraying characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Julian Assange, Stephen Hawking and, most recently, Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, which is screening at the Dubai International Film Festival on December 16 and 17, wrote The National.
These characters are some of the world's best thinkers and they possess skills and personalities that may not be easily understood or at least presented in a way that can still be attractive, yet Cumberbatch has a way of reviving these distinct personalities through his acting that makes computation sexy for the big screen.
Norwegian director Morten Tyldum's new biopic successfully humanizes the great code-breaker and computer scientist by leaning hard on this split, wrote Zimbio. The film was based on Andrew Hodges' biography 'Alan Turing: The Enigma, The Imitation Game' that tells the story of a man whose mind so powerful that it can win the war against Nazi Germany, yet it also left him vulnerable to exactly the kind of witch hunt that eventually brought him down.
Cumberbatch seems to have an affinity to highly-complex individuals under extraordinary circumstances, and by that including the character's accent, mannerisms, and personality quirks with such precision it becomes so plausible.
'The Imitation Game' opens with Turing being interrogated by an officer in view of a break-in that's happened in his home. One of the investigators went farther sensing that something's not right about the situation and so he probed and what he found out may not be exactly what he's looking for: Turing is gay. What happened next was that the mathematician was charged for gross indecency charge that devastated his life beyond repair.
There were three timelines in the story. The first happened in 1952 when he was investigated. However, most of the story took place in Bletchy Park where he worked his cryptography magic during World War II. The third traces back to Turing's schoolboy days when he fell in love with the boy named Christopher, and this became a pivotal event in his life shaping what would eventually become of him.
'The Imitation Game' is one tragic but very inspiring story of man who has been unjustly treated. One of the trailer's powerful statements is this: It took a man with secrets to break the biggest one. The film also stars Keira Knightly.
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