Went to see The Imitation Game yesterday. Its funny, brilliant and of course tragic. Hit me like a kick in the stomach and I only just didnt break down and cry at the end. Was shaking and my voice didnt work quite right. Cant help thinking that Turing was tortured to death by my countrys government. They gave him what I was born with, and gender-dysphoria kills people. There was just one moment near the end after he had been given oestrogen injections where he couldnt think clearly. It takes around three days for cross-gender hormones to start affecting mental processes and change how you feel and think. And I suspect that loss of self was what killed him, not the more obvious physical changes. Torture indeed. But I really hope Joan Clark was there with him towards the end. So he wasnt totally alone and knew someone cared for him. In a way I wish he had taken the tactful route for men in his position in that day and age. Joan knew, so there would be no lies, and he might have lived to be an honoured old man as opposed to a now-honoured tragic, wonderful genius betrayed by the country he served so very uniquely and well. A country that could not look aside from one tiny, irrelevant thing that made him an outcast and judicial victim. One tiny, irrelevant thing that was who he was and that killed him. His work helped shorten the worst conflict in human history by about two years and saved an estimated fourteen million lives. In time of war, that amounts to genuine heroism.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:47:23 +0000
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