Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Imitate This

Driving westward at the corner of Olympic and Sepulveda, a saw a billboard for The Imitation Game.  I was going to describe it, but I found a photo:

 
If you're having trouble reading it, it says "He saved millions of lives during World War 2./ Honor The Man./ Honor The Film./ The Imitation Game."

It's not a bad movie, but what sort of disgusting appeal to the Oscar voters is this?  Their job is to determine which film is the best artistically.  It's got nothing to do with whether Alan Turing deserves to be honored (even the imaginary Alan Turing of the film, very little like the real one).

The Academy is already too easily taken in by films with noble themes.  I wasn't rooting for the film, but now I may have to actively root against it.

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