The Imitation Game: Benedict Cumberbatch

The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is a World War 2 film, based on a true story of how those of the British Intelligence cracked the codes of the Enigma, an advanced German coding machine. The film was not bashed for its historical accuracy, but some of that ease on the criticism may have been because Alan Turing has finally been given justice after 60 years. The historical inaccuracies were not major, although added up, they play a key role in the interest level of the audience. For example in the movie, Benedict Cumberbatch plays an awkward genius Alan Turing who could not understand a simple invitation to lunch. When in reality, Turing’s character was not as Hollywood or dramatic as portrayed in the film. Instead of embracing Turing for the character he was, the film portrayed a caricature of a tortured genius. Also, the movie adds in a Russian spy that Turing encounters which never occurred in real life. The film also keeps Turing’s sexuality a secret for most of the movie, but as real life revealed, Alan Turing was rather open about his …show more content…
Historically speaking, the movie is fairly accurate because it is not based on a true story within the Vietnam War. Despite this, the movie still has many inaccuracies. The Stream that they are travelling down in, in Vietnam, is very not populated and beautiful land, which is the contrary to what Vietnam is, with grossly populated settlements ridiculing the land. The film fails to point out the causes of the war, and lets the reader into the thinking that it is America’s war staged in Vietnam. This obviously is not the case because the Vietnam was a civil war that America decided to get involved in. The film also eliminates any opportunity of an unbiased film by not having any Vietnamese persons included in the