ai is, at its foundation, Alan Turing's passion project. he got really into the idea because he was daydreaming about bringing back his dead high school boyfriend. he named the computer he built in his house after him
ai is sad gay necromancy. other uses of the technology are mostly a side effect
i forgot this detail. the dead high school boyfriend died of bovine tuberculosis, which he got from drinking raw milk. underrated story.
bsky.app/profile/clar...😩 the boyfriend died of Raw Milk !?!?!
the primary problem with The Imitation Game, other than that it gets the science mostly wrong, is that it mostly told the story of Alan Turing's beard from his 20s instead of his high school boyfriend, which is a much better story
"we got Keira Knightley, we're telling a story about his beard and making it really dramatic like she didn't know he was gay"
vs
"sad gay high school nerd romance"
hollywood chose wrong
I think the scene that was the worst in that was where one of Alan's colleagues was telling him he had to be really careful and not tell anyone he was gay because it would ruin him. Pretty sure that scene was just to get the audience to appreciate that fact but it came across as het-splaining.
May 13, 2025 14:49Like I'm pretty sure anyone in that time period wouldn't have even broached that conversation and would've assumed that if Turing had made it that far in his career that he understood that and argh. Just a dumb scene.
In general the whole movie felt so dumbed down for a broader audience on both the queer and the computer side of things, plus the characterization of Turing way too influenced by Cumberbatch's typecasting. Just Hollywood film-by-committee slop all the way through.
