Maybe I’m just not easily impressed anymore. Maybe it’s
because I rarely see any of the really bad movies anymore and so by comparison,
the stuff that is really good seems so ordinary. The Imitation Game is supposed to be one of the year’s best movies,
but it is so utterly conventional, I just found it sort of dull. This is the
story of Alan Turing, the British mathematician who helped decode the messages
churned out by Enigma, the Nazis’ communication device, which should be a ripe
subject for a fascinating story. The machine Turing developed to break the code
laid the foundation for modern computing.
