The Imitation Game

“The Imitation Game” portrays Alan Turing as a weak whiny, and possibly a traitor to his country. But the real Alan Turing was a hero.

A few years ago, I entered my classroom and was about to introduce that day’s lesson when a large poster pinned to the bulletin board caught my eye.

The 56-page manuscript was written at the time the mathematician and computer science pioneer was working to break the seemingly unbreakable Enigma codes used by the Germans throughout the war.

Moore is not gay. His speech was not about LGBT youth, many of whom experience depression because of the homophobia and transphobia in which our culture is mired. His speech was not even about the reality of Alan Turing’s life itself.
(BuzzFeed)

Graham Moore, who on Sunday won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Imitation Game,” took the opportunity to give a powerful acceptance speech calling awareness to teen suicide and depression, recalling his own attempt at suicide at age 16.

‘Tis clearly the season for Oscar-worthy performances by British actors playing mathematical geniuses facing daunting personal odds. Sound overly specific? Consider: A few weeks ago we had “The Theory of Everything,” starring Eddie Redmayne as the brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking. And now we have Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Imitation Game” as Alan Turing…

Germany’s top-secret World War II code was called “Enigma,” and the gay Englishman who played a key role in breaking that code — Alan Turing — was very much an enigma himself. CBS News’ Anthony Mason reports on Turing’s life, which is chronicled in the new film, “The Imitation Game” (out next month). It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as…