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Discussion on: Happy 110th Birthday, Alan Turing!

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Pedro H. Santos

The movie "The Imitation Game" is amazing, Thanks Alan Turing!

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Stijn de Ligt • Edited

I disagree strongly. His character was reduced to an autistic stereotype. Even though he might have been on the spectrum (not diagnosed), many people around him described him as a good friend and warm person. Instead he is presented as an unsociable, cold and calculated person.
All real sources were dropped to instead display him as a mix of Sheldon from big bang theory and Sherlock.
The same applies to other characters from that film as they are all based on real people. The family members of Commander Denniston, the main antagonist, even opened a lawsuit against the filmmakers for how poorly they represented him.