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 Comment by Bertold Brautigan on Monday
Rolling Stone review of The Imitation Game, film about Alan Turing cracking the enigma code
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Benedict Cumberbatch cracks the code in this biopic about the cryptanalyst who helped the Allies win WWII
BY PETER TRAVERS | November 26, 2014
It's an undeniable pleasure to dig into a crackling spy thriller dished out by experts. The Imitation Game is an immersive true story that laces dizzying tension with raw emotion. Benedict Cumberbatch, an Emmy winner for Sherlock Holmes, turns on the brainpower again to play Alan Turing, a genius mathematician and social misfit who teamed up with a handful of cryptanalysts at London's Bletchley Park during World War II to crack the Nazis' naval code and help win the war. That he did, only to see his achievements buried in government secrecy and to end his own life in 1954 after being persecuted for the then-crime of homosexuality. The queen pardoned him posthumously last year. Talk about too little, too late.
And yet The Imitation Game doesn't dawdle over the spilled milk of social treachery. The roguish script by newcomer Graham Moore alleviates the feel of a musty period piece. And Norwegian filmmaker Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) directs with masterly assurance, fusing suspense and character to create a movie that vibrates with energy.
The film's prime force is Cumberbatch, a great actor whose talent shines here on its highest beams. It's an explosive, emotionally complex performance. An early scene in which Turing, 27, interviews for a job at Bletchley with Commander Dennison (Charles Dance, doing smug to a turn) is wonderfully comic as Turing gains the upper hand. The commander retaliates by hiring chess champion Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode) to head the unit, which includes John Cairncross (Allen Leech) and Peter Hilton (Matthew Beard). Turing later persuades Winston Churchill to put him in charge of his perceived inferiors. He's more amenable to Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), the only woman in the unit. Knightley is terrific, giving a supporting role major dimensions. It's sharply poignant to watch these two delude themselves into considering marriage.
The action ignites when, after two years of effort, Turing invents his Enigma-busting machine, a proto-computer geared to break a code that the Nazis change every 24 hours. It's been a long time since intellectual sparring created such excitement onscreen. I've heard a few critics dismiss this mind-bender as hopelessly old-hat. Ha! If so, long live retro. ​
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 Comment by sk8eycat on Sunday
All the valuable artworks in the Vatican are not only "unnatural," according to the Decalogue, they are forbidden.
Theists are unbelievable hypocrites.
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I like the story about the "discovery" that microwaves can heat things.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
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 Comment by James M. Martin on Sunday
Sk8eycat, I like the analogy to toaster ovens and electric lawn mowers. When you stop to think that 90% of the great scientific discoveries have come in the last 100 years, it is amazing anyone on earth puts faith in a 4-5,000 year old book riddled with superstition and hallucinatory fantasies.
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 Comment by Daniel W on Sunday
Cancer is natural. So is hemlock. And ricin. And botulism.
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 Comment by sk8eycat on Sunday
Janice, for that matter, houses, tap water, and automobiles aren't "natural" either. Nor fancy cathedrals. They just. Don't. Get. It.
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 Comment by Janice Rael on Saturday
Just remind them that computers are not natural, eyeglasses are not natural, air conditioning is not natural, deliberately ingesting medicine to cure an ailment is not natural..
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 Comment by sk8eycat on Saturday
James, I have read and heard that homosexuality is "unnatural" or "against nature" more times than I can count.  And I want to scream.
REAL naturalists have recorded "homosexual behavior" in the wild for decades....it's a FACT, like evolution, and the real age of the universe(s).....I just want to beat that into the pea-brains that the customs of their one bigoted little tribe are not laws of nature.
BUT....the Michigan legislature has gone bonkers....
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349672/-Michigan-House-pa...
And yet another unarmed black man has been killed by police....
I've GOT to stop reading DAILY KOS!  It makes me want to leave the building.  NOW.
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 Comment by Daniel W on Saturday
p.s.  Gore Vidal in that video is awesome!  So much ahead of his time.
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 Comment by Daniel W 6 hours ago
Yup. That sums it up.
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 Comment by Bertold Brautigan 7 hours ago

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 Comment by Bertold Brautigan on Monday
Rolling Stone review of The Imitation Game, film about Alan Turing cracking the enigma code
-----
Benedict Cumberbatch cracks the code in this biopic about the cryptanalyst who helped the Allies win WWII
BY PETER TRAVERS | November 26, 2014
It's an undeniable pleasure to dig into a crackling spy thriller dished out by experts. The Imitation Game is an immersive true story that laces dizzying tension with raw emotion. Benedict Cumberbatch, an Emmy winner for Sherlock Holmes, turns on the brainpower again to play Alan Turing, a genius mathematician and social misfit who teamed up with a handful of cryptanalysts at London's Bletchley Park during World War II to crack the Nazis' naval code and help win the war. That he did, only to see his achievements buried in government secrecy and to end his own life in 1954 after being persecuted for the then-crime of homosexuality. The queen pardoned him posthumously last year. Talk about too little, too late.
And yet The Imitation Game doesn't dawdle over the spilled milk of social treachery. The roguish script by newcomer Graham Moore alleviates the feel of a musty period piece. And Norwegian filmmaker Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) directs with masterly assurance, fusing suspense and character to create a movie that vibrates with energy.
The film's prime force is Cumberbatch, a great actor whose talent shines here on its highest beams. It's an explosive, emotionally complex performance. An early scene in which Turing, 27, interviews for a job at Bletchley with Commander Dennison (Charles Dance, doing smug to a turn) is wonderfully comic as Turing gains the upper hand. The commander retaliates by hiring chess champion Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode) to head the unit, which includes John Cairncross (Allen Leech) and Peter Hilton (Matthew Beard). Turing later persuades Winston Churchill to put him in charge of his perceived inferiors. He's more amenable to Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), the only woman in the unit. Knightley is terrific, giving a supporting role major dimensions. It's sharply poignant to watch these two delude themselves into considering marriage.
The action ignites when, after two years of effort, Turing invents his Enigma-busting machine, a proto-computer geared to break a code that the Nazis change every 24 hours. It's been a long time since intellectual sparring created such excitement onscreen. I've heard a few critics dismiss this mind-bender as hopelessly old-hat. Ha! If so, long live retro. ​
.
 Comment by sk8eycat on Sunday
All the valuable artworks in the Vatican are not only "unnatural," according to the Decalogue, they are forbidden.
Theists are unbelievable hypocrites.
****************************
I like the story about the "discovery" that microwaves can heat things.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
.
 Comment by James M. Martin on Sunday
Sk8eycat, I like the analogy to toaster ovens and electric lawn mowers. When you stop to think that 90% of the great scientific discoveries have come in the last 100 years, it is amazing anyone on earth puts faith in a 4-5,000 year old book riddled with superstition and hallucinatory fantasies.
.
 Comment by Daniel W on Sunday
Cancer is natural. So is hemlock. And ricin. And botulism.
.
 Comment by sk8eycat on Sunday
Janice, for that matter, houses, tap water, and automobiles aren't "natural" either. Nor fancy cathedrals. They just. Don't. Get. It.
.
 Comment by Janice Rael on Saturday
Just remind them that computers are not natural, eyeglasses are not natural, air conditioning is not natural, deliberately ingesting medicine to cure an ailment is not natural..
.
 Comment by sk8eycat on Saturday
James, I have read and heard that homosexuality is "unnatural" or "against nature" more times than I can count.  And I want to scream.
REAL naturalists have recorded "homosexual behavior" in the wild for decades....it's a FACT, like evolution, and the real age of the universe(s).....I just want to beat that into the pea-brains that the customs of their one bigoted little tribe are not laws of nature.
BUT....the Michigan legislature has gone bonkers....
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349672/-Michigan-House-pa...
And yet another unarmed black man has been killed by police....
I've GOT to stop reading DAILY KOS!  It makes me want to leave the building.  NOW.
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 Comment by Daniel W on Saturday
p.s.  Gore Vidal in that video is awesome!  So much ahead of his time.
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