He’s the smartest man in the room, knows it, doesn’t try to hide it, and doesn’t get why that offends others. He’s socially insecure, but at the same time he has complete belief in his ability as a mathematician. What comes across is a socially inept, unlikely hero with a brilliant mind and a tortured soul-and one who was gay in a time when homosexuality in Britain was illegal.Ĭumberbatch stoops and stutters his way through Turing’s personal contradictions.
Now his life-and to a lesser extent, his work-is getting the big-screen treatment with The Imitation Game, which was released today in the United Kingdom and will open in the United States on 28 November.īenedict Cumberbatch plays “odd fish” Turing, so convincingly that you forget that you’re looking at Sherlock Holmes or Star Trek’s Khan. He created the “bombe,” a cryptanalysis machine that broke the Enigma cipher used by German army and navy forces. Perhaps like no other single person, Alan Turing helped win the second World War.
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