This friend became, for Turing, a permanent obsession, long after Christopher’s early death. The two are especially drawn to codes and games, crossword puzzles and cryptograms, which become the primary vehicle of their embedded communication. The script by Graham Moore, based on Andrew Hodges’ biography Alan Turing: The Enigma, frequently touches on the dichotomous relationship between humans and machines, embodied first and foremost in the person of Turing, who is depicted from the outset as a socially clueless, inwardly focused deep thinker, an “odd duck,” someone who today would likely be viewed as being on the autistic spectrum, with a pronounced obsessive-compulsive personality.įlashbacks to Turing’s teenage school years at Sherborne (where some of the filming took place) show his budding relationship with fellow student Christopher, the only person who understood him and encouraged his special intelligence.
Turing was convinced that “Only a machine could beat another machine.” Viewed in historical hindsight, “Turing’s machine” was in effect the invention of the modern-day computer. The Imitation Game is the enthralling story of an inspired, harassed and troubled genius, British mathematician Alan Turing, whose conquest of the “unbreakable” Nazi “Enigma” code ultimately led to the Allied victory in World War II.
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