The Imitation Game is a 2014 historical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum, with a screenplay by Graham Moore loosely based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch, who also stared recently in Star Trek into Darkness and BBC Sherlock’s.

The movie stars showing Alan’s personality: cocky, weird and yet a genius. Throughout the story you see glances into Alan as a young teen and he has always been the odd one off, being bullied in a all boy’s school with his only friend being Christopher whom he names the machine after.

Alan is pretty much the only character spotlighted, which in a way it’s a pitty because there are other great actors we could see more of but at the same time Alan is portraited as such a witty and complex character that he is enough to keep you interested through the high and lows. And there are a lot of lows. if you can’t handle heart wrenching moments, skip it or you will be bawling by the end of it. Which is funny because at the same time you pity Alan, you also have a hard time understanding his complex character.

It’s brilliantly directed, acted and written and it’s one of those movies that leaves you thinking about your life and society.