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Dec 02, 2016ba_library rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Not sure why I checked this film out - never heard of it, even though it was nominated for several Academy Awards. I was familiar with the Alan Turing story and always wondered why it hadn't been made into a film - it has! Good film, worth watching. Turing was an academic genius who was recruited for a British government secret project, breaking the Nazi Germany Enigma code. Thought unbreakable, it transmitted all the Nazi war projects. Turing came up with what is now considered the forerunner of the computer - a machine to break the code! Took personal belief and conviction by Turing and great (financial) support by the British government, who really could not understand or comprehend his project. Ultimately, he and his team break the code and assisted in the Allied win over Germany, but was he treated as a genius or national hero? Unfortunately, his personal life caught up with him (he was a homosexual) which was a crime in England at this time. Watch the film to see what happens to this genius.