“The Imitation Game,” July 18, 2015 (2014), DVD. We both enjoyed this tribute to Alan Turing staring Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. With his assistant co-workers, Turing built one of, if not the very first computer, Christopher, and used it to break the German Enigma Code during WWII, shortening the war and saving millions of lives. The film plays him as a difficult, literal person, a very odd duck devoid of social skills He is also gay and, during the 1950s, suffers tremendously for this and eventually kills himself while under intense hormone treatment and chemical castration. Yes, he’s a difficult person, but this is a traditional story in some ways, the story of the brilliant, good, if odd, person persecuted and destroyed by an uncaring and cruelly backward, homophobic society. It’s filmed in that way also. Everyone is really quite beautiful. With excellent work by Kiera Knightly, Matthew Goode, Allan Leech, and Charles Dance. Turing’s nieces remarked that the Cumberbatch truly captured their uncle in the film. Several film friends have protested to me that an alternate theory of Turing’s death as an assassination by government agents was intentionally ignored by the filmmakers