Current Events > I really hate The Imitation Game (spoilers?)

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The film is more interested in talking about Alan Turing's sexuality than why he is one of the most important people of the 20th century. Not that what happened to him isn't massively important and doesn't deserve being told, but approximately 90% of the stuff that informs on his genius is made up soap opera shit meant to inform on his sexuality and tragedy, which simultaneously rings hollow because, again, it's literally all made up from whole cloth.
Approximately the only true thing in the film is that Turing worked at Blechley during the war and he made a machine and he also worked with some people who had the same names as characters in the film.
The film presents him as the stereotypical Hollywood portrayal of high-functionals. He's a giant asshole consumed with his own genius, which of course turns his co-workers against him, making it much harder for him to accomplish his work, which creates the conflict of a good 40+% of the film. Not some sort of actual issue with the construction of the machine. Fake drama created solely because the film presents Turing as a douchebag nobody wants to work with. The film has no interest in his actual genius.
There's like one conversation (which happens randomly after Turing visits Keira Knightley at night rather than in the context of Turing's actual work) that explains in short how Enigma works and the key to cracking it, but that's LITERALLY ALL. We don't hear anything about Turing's machine, how it truly works, why there is issues with it, why everyone else believes it won't work (which is also made up for drama). Other people ask how/when the machine will work and Turing shouts back MY MACHINE WILL WORK!". Never explaining anything to the audience or the other characters. Further presenting Turing as a dick and leaving the shitty drama unresolved for no reason other than to extend the film's running time.
Then when they finally do break Enigma there's a weird section of the movie where Turing and his team decides who in the military gets to live and who gets to die because they make the choice of which cracked messages to send up the chain of military command, effectively making them the highest authority in the British intelligence and military service, a power they give themselves, effectively making them all traitors. Fucking what. This is complete nonsense that serves no purpose except maybe to make Turing come off as even more of a dick to one of his co-workers.
Did anyone find this section of the film emotionally or narratively satisfying? Did anyone find it believeable? Did anyone think it added anything to the film? Including the writer, actors and director? I can't imagine so.

Even ignoring that the supporting material is all made up, the actual discussion the film has on his treatment IS ALSO MADE UP. Worst of all it portrays him as defending himself by divulging military secrets to a random fuckstain constable. Not saying that he shouldn't defend himself, but if you make up a story, how dare you make one up that presents him as a traitor? Nevermind that you earlier made up a like story, plus one where he was contemplating keeping secret the identity of a Russian spy (by the way, how hilariously pathetic was that revelation?) to protect his own sexuality. Just how fucking dare you? Why does Turing's story need these lies and half truths? Why isn't what really happened horrible and tragic enough?

I'm not sure how the terms work, but I think this is what one would call gay pandering. Instead of informing the viewer of Turing's true history and nature they make up a giant fake story, portraying him horribly in the process, to support an also made up narrative about how awful shit happened ot him because he was gay. Which did happening so why did they make it up?

Do gay people find this sort of storytelling respectful of Turing and the injustice he went through because of his sexuality? Honest question. I'm not in that position and I want to know how people who are feels.