The Imitation Game
I’ve never really used my Tumblr to create “blog” posts, in which I really talk about something like a movie or book, but today I’ve watched the Imitation Game and I really need to get some thoughts off my chest.
If you haven’t watched the movie, please do it. Or if you haven’t heard about Alan Turing. Before the movie, I haven’t heard about him. Like anything. I didn’t know a thing about this amazing story - amazing as “inspiring, impressive, touching”. It wasn’t amazing as in the actual meaning, because I fucking bawled my eyes out in the end.
*Spoiler alert*:
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. It’s 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 I’m trying to say is that it might spread even more awareness of how bad the situation was only 70 yrs ago. And you know, Alan’s 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 don’t even get a short sequence, like in “Me before you”, where there’s a sort of positive letter - no. And it’s 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. That’s so wrong, so unfair, I can’t put into words how much the imagination of such circumstances hurt, how it shouldn’t have been that way. And I believe that - even though it’s gotten a lot better - there’s 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 don’t discriminate. That’s all I can say, because I don’t have the ability to travel into people’s ability and destroy their prejudices.
*Spoiler alert end*
And, last but not least: I am so positively overwhelmed by Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance in the movie. I’ve watched him in “Sherlock”, “Patrick Melrose” and “Dr. Strange”, and I can just say that by every performance I’m 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 wasn’t “entertaining” for me, it was a life lesson. A history lesson. A psychology and philosophy lesson, kind of.
Please seriously watch this movie. It’s powerful.
Yours, -Lane
