This is the film that should have won a lot of awards but was beaten by the theory of everything for every award it was nominated for. I have yet to watch the theory of everything but when I do I will compare them to see if it was a deserved winner.Benedict Cumberbatch is Alan Turing, an Autistic mathematical genius. No one knows much about Alan Turing except that he was educated at Cambridge, bullied in school and built the Turing machines that we now call computers.
It is very difficult for someone without ASD to accurately portray someone with it, especially as each person with autism is different. Psychologists like to say that we are all on the spectrum and it's true, we are however for most of us, we cant see that our actions are any different from the actions classified as the norm and society has enough other labels to categorize us before we get further onto the spectrum.
Prior to this I have only seen one actor effectively portray an autistic child and that was Leonardo Di Caprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
That was a different type of autism, a more serious behavioural form of autism. Cumberbatch shows a different, more mild form of autism and is neck and neck with Di Caprio on his performance.
Had this film not been released around the same time as The Theory of Everything then I am confident that best picture and best actor would have been claimed by this awesome array of talent from Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Charles Dance and dare I even say it Keira Knightly. I am not a fan of hers and this is the first film that i have seen her in and liked her in to the point that I hardly noticed her inability to close her mouth.
This is a film that goes on the pile of greats, alongside the Spielberg films!
I missed the trailer for it so I have included it below in case any of you did as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5CjKEFb-sM
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