This is a movie about Alan Turing who built the first computer during WWII which enabled the Allies to decrypt Nazi codes used for communication and battle plans. He is played brilliantly by Benedict Cumberbatch who portrays Turing as the reclusive, socially awkward homosexual who was also arrogant and not very easy to like.
There are flashbacks in the movie which show Turing as a school boy first discovering his fascination with codes and ciphers and math and also experiencing his first crush.
After the successful creation of "Christopher" (Turing named the machine), the team realized that they could not immediately interfere with attack plans from the Germans because they would then know their code was broken. So for the duration of the war, they used mathematical analyses to determine which Nazi battle plans would be thwarted.
This was kept secret during the war from the military and instead a sham intelligence unit was set up and occasional and sporadic "real" Nazi plans were fed into this unit. After the war the team broke up and under orders had to destroy everything and not speak of what they had done.
turing was eventually arrested for indecency (homosexuality was illegal in England) and he chose to be chemically castrated instead of going to jail. One year later he committed suicide at the age of 41.
This movie was a solid 10!
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