Iâve never really used my Tumblr to create âblogâ posts, in which I really talk about something like a movie or book, but today Iâve watched the Imitation Game and I really need to get some thoughts off my chest.
If you havenât watched the movie, please do it. Or if you havenât heard about Alan Turing. Before the movie, I havenât heard about him. Like anything. I didnât know a thing about this amazing story - amazing as âinspiring, impressive, touchingâ. It wasnât amazing as in the actual meaning, because I fucking bawled my eyes out in the end.
I think the ending was really good. I mean - it was very good writing. Because what happened to homosexuals back in the days is horrible. So horrible. Itâs not even that far away from 2020 - I mean, of course, 70 years is kind of a lot, but not compared to medieval times, the renaissance, the dinosaur times - what Iâm trying to say is that it might spread even more awareness of how bad the situation was only 70 yrs ago. And you know, Alanâs life ended just like that. Without a goodbye. Without a happy ending. So why would you give the movie a happy ending, only so the fans are pleased? It would be wrong. This is the depiction of reality. Without any glimpse of a happy ending. We donât even get a short sequence, like in âMe before youâ, where thereâs a sort of positive letter - no. And itâs how it should be. A cold ending. A sad ending. It hurts a lot when I think about it, about the way Alan was shaking when Joan visited him, about how broken he was inside. And for what? His sexual orientation? Dear God. Thatâs so wrong, so unfair, I canât put into words how much the imagination of such circumstances hurt, how it shouldnât have been that way. And I believe that - even though itâs gotten a lot better - thereâs uncountable cases like that one nowadays. In the country we live in there might be no law against homosexuality, but hate and discrimination is everywhere. Please donât discriminate. Thatâs all I can say, because I donât have the ability to travel into peopleâs ability and destroy their prejudices.
And, last but not least: I am so positively overwhelmed by Benedict Cumberbatchâs performance in the movie. Iâve watched him in âSherlockâ, âPatrick Melroseâ and âDr. Strangeâ, and I can just say that by every performance Iâm getting more fond of him. So talented. Especially because each of those characters is so unique, and has a very extraordinary way of moving their body, of twitching their eyebrow and just EVERYthing.
This movie wasnât âentertainingâ for me, it was a life lesson. A history lesson. A psychology and philosophy lesson, kind of.
Please seriously watch this movie. Itâs powerful.