Finally saw The Imitation Game today...breathtaking film...touched me on so many levels, and the ending just wiped me out...haven't cried that hard in many years...really took me a while to get it together afterward, and my eyes are still bloodshot...if you're reading this post on a computer, you should thank Alan Turing, and the film should be mandatory viewing of film for all gay people...
Doyle Borden said...
ReplyDeleteIt was an excellent film.
Danny Herring-Battle said...
ReplyDeleteWe shall watch it tomorrow...
James Shamus Rock said...
ReplyDeleteTotally Agree ! Amazing Movie! Dont Worry You're Not The Only One Who Bawled At The End!
Doyle Borden said...
ReplyDeleteWhat is so staggering is the number of people prosecuted for their orientation during that time.
Yep.
DeleteAudrey Green Morahan said...
ReplyDeleteWill have to check this one out but... If it made you cry Bish dunno if a Theatre would be the place. I look and sound terrible when I'm crying
It's not a sad movie, and it's a true story...just the ending is profoundly moving, at least for me it was...may not affect everyone the same...
DeleteBrad Krueger said...
ReplyDeleteIt is a great movie
Kevin Broadhead said...
ReplyDeleteMy brother and I loved that movie. I don't usually go to see a movie twice but i had to see it again with my son, wife and our gay best friend....a family favorite but very sad and maddening.
Rachel Pennington said...
ReplyDeleteJust finished a marathon of all best picture noms. From Selma to Boyhood to Theory of Everything to Imitation Game and more. Was a whirlwind of emotion. I too cried for hours straight during a few of the films.
Sandra Rosser said...
ReplyDeleteI saw it twice. I went to see it because I'm a Cumberbatch fan, but saw it again with my sister because it was such a great movie. Also made me investigate the real Alan Turing on line; how ironic is that?!
Indeed
DeleteMatthew Crawley said...
ReplyDeleteA terrific film. Cumberbatch was masterful. His performance affected me more than any other this year. I will be watching Imitation Game and Birdman several more times, I suspect.
Bill Jarrett said...
ReplyDeleteIt was a very sad ending to Alan Turing's life. It's also sad that it took so long for those in authority to acknowledge that such a travesty had occurred.
Matthew Crawley said...
ReplyDelete^^ Reminder to me: I had intended to look up the numbers of publicly-recognizable people of great talent and genius who were subjected to similar heinous treatment. I know it was Oscar Wilde's fate, as well.
Dennis L. Hall said...
ReplyDeleteJim Swilley, do you remember I mentioned this movie to you. Thought you would like it.
Yeah, I have been meaning to see it for weeks, and was already aware of the story...but it was way better than I had anticipated...
DeleteThe Imitation Game was nominated for 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, and won 1 last evening for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay...everything at the ceremony went exactly as I had predicted, so I wasn't all that surprised that Benedict Cumberbatch didn't win Best Actor for his astounding portrayal of Alan Turing, although I would have loved for him to have won...in all fairness, all 5 nominees in that category this year gave Oscar-worthy performances, so I was good with Eddie Redmayne's well-deserved win for The Theory of Everything Movie...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, several of you have reminded me since last night that you had recommended 'The Imitation Game' to me weeks ago...I know that Avery Price Rogers wanted us all to go see it when it first came out, and I was aware of the story, and had seen Cumberbatch interviewed about it...but I think I subconsciously dreaded sitting through it...I can't explain how deeply it hurts me to see the biographies of gay people who didn't end well, and I just kept putting off seeing this one for that reason...let me say here that Turing's life ended tragically, not because he was gay, but because of intolerance and the insane laws and punishment for gay people of his time...
Last week Jackie C Jenkins said to me, "You seriously need to go see this film!", and I guess that was the third and final witness, because we finally did go on Saturday, and I am glad that we did (even though it wiped me out, emotionally)...I'm sure I'll get it on DVD to see all the backstory and extras...
I really want Alan Turing's story to be known...