Shedding light on a British WWII warrior in tweed

THE Imitation Game tells the story of Alan Turing, a man who fought a war not from the front lines - like Chris Kyle in American Sniper, for instance - but from the confines of a leafy estate in England where, together with a small band of fellow code-breakers, he worked in secret and wound up making a major contribution to winning World War II.

The story of a warrior dressed in a cardigan and a tweed jacket and wielding ideas rather than a gun is fascinating enough, but Turing's stature as a pioneer in the field of computer science and his subsequent prosecution for homosexuality in post-war Britain adds another layer to an already complex personality.

The film, directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Graham Moore and based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, is about a man immersed in a world of secrets and lies - a world that eventually turned against him.