What did the imitation game get wrong?
The biggest liberty taken by The Imitation Game is to accuse Turing of being a traitor to Britain, by not reporting spy John Cairncross (Allen Leech) after Cairncross threatened to expose Turing as a homosexual.Click to see full answer. Then, how historically accurate is the imitation game?The Imitation Game jumps around three time periods –…
The biggest liberty taken by The Imitation Game is to accuse Turing of being a traitor to Britain, by not reporting spy John Cairncross (Allen Leech) after Cairncross threatened to expose Turing as a homosexual.Click to see full answer. Then, how historically accurate is the imitation game?The Imitation Game jumps around three time periods – Turing’s schooldays in 1928, his cryptographic work at Bletchley Park from 1939-45, and his arrest for gross indecency in Manchester in 1952. It isn’t accurate about any of them, but the least wrong bits are the 1928 ones.One may also ask, what is the imitation game all about? In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma — which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing’s team, including Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), analyze Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed and become heroes, but in 1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace when authorities reveal he is gay and send him to prison. Subsequently, one may also ask, how did Christopher die in the imitation game? tuberculosis Who was the spy in imitation game? John Cairncross
