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User Reviews for: The Imitation Game

SeanMSU
2/10  10 years ago
This movie is so ham-fisted it hurts. The historical inaccuracy aside, this movie plays like an incredibly stupid person decided to write what he thought a smart person was like in the most generic way possible. "I-I'm a genius b-but I can't understand simple human interaction" real anti-social people aren't that way because they don't understand basic English vernacular. They should have done more research than watching the Big Bang Theory every night. It's not just Touring though, every character and plot point is simplified to an absurd level. The simplification doesn't even make sense sometimes, like when they had the main characters allow the one guy's brother's ship get blown up to hide the fact that they decoded Enigma. The reality of what happened was that the British Government decided to allow a town in France to get completely annihilated so the German's wouldn't know they had broken Enigma. Why the fuck would they change this? It seriously baffles me to think of what was going through the writer's brain. Also, it's complete bullshit that the Code Breakers won the war (which they will explicitly state numerous times throughout the movie) sure it made the Allies lose less men and helped them when planning attacks but the German's were not going to win just because the Allies couldn't break their codes.

In short it's a simplified and distorted version of events meant for people who do not know what really happened and who do not want to think very much while watching a movie about people breaking a complex code.
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Reply by lilyevanspotter
8 years ago
I agree with you that the historical inaccuracy may bother A LOT! That happened to me when I watched The Other Boleyn Girl. I extremely hated it at first but then I realized that this is cinema and people do everything to earn money, even if it means that you're going to screw the whole history behind the film. Thinking this way, the work may seem to be way better.
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