THE story of the Blechley Park codebreakers who worked so hard to keep up the pressure on the Third Reich will be on screen at the Adam Smith Theatre this month.
On Friday 23rd The Imitation Game will be screened featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode and directed by Morten Tyldum.
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, The Imitation Game portrays the nail-biting race against time by the brilliant team of code-breakers at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of the Second World War.
Benedict Cumberbatch is quite wonderful as Turing, the mathematician and pioneer who changed the course of the war only to suffer the indignities of arrest and “chemical castration” for his homosexuality, a tragedy in the truest sense of the word.
Despite such ingredients, The Imitation Game is not a melancholic work – rather a celebration of Turing’s extraordinary achievements, and an attempt to redress the balance.
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