Turing is played with captivating strangeness by Benedict Cumberbatch, who has the perfect visage for a man who seems to have been part alien (at the very least on the outer reaches of Aspergerian) Cumberbatch’s hemisphere-wide blue eyes look as if they’re taking in what the rest of us will never even glimpse. The Imitation Game is a highly simplified version of the highly complex life of proto-computer genius, World War II code breaker, and gay martyr Alan Turing - but even with all its elisions and distortions it tells a cracking good story. Photo: Jack English/The Weinstein Company
