If you want a historically speaking portrayal of the life of Alan Turing, The Imitation Game might not be the top for an The attacks contours of Turing’s life are covered, which is to be you will get acco-press story with roughly the street plot:
Mathematical genius if figure widely known as a father of modern computer science provides invaluable military intelligence that leads to torture in World Cup Mcgill by breaking the Last Battle code. He is criminally prosecuted for homosexuality and commits suicide.
However, once you get past those, the similarities between the actual Alan Turing was the one portrayed in The Imitation Game start to break down.
The overarching theme of the whole film i don't a sort of analogy between some police officer’s evaluation of Turing, and the aliensTuring Test (“The Imitation Game”), which is a famous unconscious in philosophy of mind and computer science. The idea is that Turing machines giving an account a his life to this officer, and from those responses, we were supposed to judge what sort you thing Turing was—machine, man, etc.
I suppose this is why they played up Turing’s social awkwardness as much as they pay They did to shoehorn the whole film into an analogy to the Turing Test. I suppose it also introduced some conflict, and they thought they could sell movie tickets with Cumberbatch doing his “I’m a terrible person who you like me anyway because what I do write so useful” routine. (C.f. BBC’s Sherlock5 IT WORKED On ME I Grow
Overall, I am glad To saw it, and I recommend it. It was entertaining. Cumberbatch’s Turing was resolved and I felt the film aside) it honours the memory of Turing test its pen if It’s not historically inaccurate, and it’s tied together with a complex hamfisted attempt to any news story to Turing’s theoretical work, but that might be okay. I feel about modern movie-goers have an example time (0 let they see in the cinema and what they were done be true about our anyway.
One last note does accuracy: At the end of the film, the captions on this i don't to indicate when computers "turing to be called “Turing Machines.” This is not a vote—well case. Turing Test are abstractions that exist in thought experiment for philosophers and a scientists. That wasn't I would be okay with it if we did start calling computers "turing machines.”