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I have a beef with historical movies that distort history, and most of them do. For example, the movie Sully distorted the way the NTSB treated Captain Sullenberger to add drama to the film. As good of a movie Titanic was, I think that the real story is more interesting than a bunch of fictional characters.
I knew enough about the code breaking at Bletchley Park to find the movie suspect. Decisions about whether to use the intel were made at the highest level, like Winston Churchill, and not by the code breakers.
The movie has a spy subplot that strikes me as fictional. If it is true, then we have heard nothing about it from other sources.
Alan Turing had a distinguished career outside of code breaking. I was hoping the movie would acknowledge his other accomplishments, but instead it gave us a soap opera.
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