Take the film's depiction of Turing's hormone therapy: While Cumberbatch does an admirable job expressing a basic understanding of Turing's suffering, he can only do so much. even noted the connection between The Imitation Game and fellow Weinstein property and Best Picture Oscar winner The King's Speech: They're both World War II biopics about an "abnormal" man overcoming his differences.īut whereas The King's Speech's tone of triumph is earned and organic, The Imitation Game has to gloss over a lot of hardship-and not just Turing's suicide. In said article, reporter Mike Fleming Jr. Weinstein even told Deadline in February he was "worried about tone" before he bought the distribution rights to the film. Club's Myles McNutt pointed out on Twitter, there's a sizable amount of evidence that awards-magnet producer Harvey Weinstein influenced The Imitation Game before and after he picked it up. It's the main problem that plagues The Imitation Game, a finely crafted film boasting strong performances that, for some reason, is determined to find a happy ending where none exists.Īs The A.V. It's a jarring juxtaposition: Joan's final monologue is clearly meant to leave the audience with a message of hope, only to immediately undercut it with a punch to the gut. And then, the audience is told by subtitles, Turing dies off-screen. She leaves, and he finds solace with his computer-the computer that wasn't actually named Christopher. The world is an infinitely better place precisely because you weren't.
If you wish you could have been 'normal,' I can promise you, I do not.
I read up on my work, a whole field of scientific inquiry that only exists because of you. I bought a ticket from a man who would likely be dead if it wasn't for you. This morning I took a train through a city that would not exist if it wasn't for you.
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