'The Imitation Game' may be entertaining but it makes this dismal mistake and cannot be recommended.“One of the reasons I wrote this book is because I wanted to make people like Alan Turing famous,” Isaacson says in Episode 131 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. When this responsibility is ignored the filmmakers have decided to, in effect, spread lies in the name of entertainment.

I consider that filmmakers, when depicting real people or events, have a responsibility to tell the truth and not distort things simply for dramatic effect. If you are aware of these stories I think you may find it difficult to swallow the gross misrepresentations of both.

If you are unaware of the stories of Enigma and Turing, you may find this a quite interesting film to watch. I could go on and list other inaccuracies.

However, you will find a Soviet spy in Turing's hut when in fact he did not work there. You will not find Harold Keen or Gordon Welchman in this film, the writers preferring to insinuate that Turing was wholly responsible for the design and building of the bombe machines (except that Hugh Alexander is credited with the idea for improving their working that was actually Welchman's). This is *not* how the German ciphers were broken and it is not even a reasonable depiction of Turing's life, particularly so when it comes to the atrocious way he was treated after the war. However, this film's story takes such liberties with the facts that it really cannot be recommended. The story told by this film is watchable, Cumberbatch renders Turing sympathetically and, somewhat to my surprise, Knightley takes the thinly written role of Joan Clarke and turns it into something with a fair bit of heft. 'The Imitation Game' is neither of these films. The story of Alan Turing, a key member of the team that developed the methods and machines that broke those ciphers is an important one, also deserving of an accurate telling. The story of the breaking of the German ciphers during WWII is a significant one, deserving of an accurate telling.

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